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Traditional medicinal plants / Inga Hedberg, Frants Staugård

Author:
Hedberg, Inga  Search this
Staugård, Frants  Search this
Physical description:
324 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Botswana
Date:
1989
Topic:
Medicinal plants  Search this
Medicine  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Call number:
RS431.M37 H45 1989
RS431.M37H45 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_394203
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Egyptische Geheimnisse, oder, Das Zigeuner-Buch genannt : eine Sammlung von Zweihundert bewährten sympathetischen und natürlichen Mitteln für Menschen und Vieh

Donor:
Herbert, Ray DSI  Search this
Physical description:
72 p. ; 17 cm
[2], 608 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1842
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Medicine, Popular  Search this
Veterinary prescriptions  Search this
Call number:
RC82 .E32 1842
RC82.E32 1842
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_391730
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Folk medicine among the Bedouin tribes in the Negev / by Aref Abu-Rabia

Author:
Abu-Rabia, Aref  Search this
Makhon le-ḥeḳer ha-midbar ʻal shem Blaʼushṭain (Śedeh Boḳer, Israel)  Search this
Physical description:
30 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Israel
Negev
Date:
1989
Topic:
Bedouins--Medicine  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric  Search this
Call number:
GR880 .A17 1989
GR880.A17 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_384101
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Medicine, science and technology

Author:
Barnett, William C  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa
Date:
2000
Topic:
Technology and civilization  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Call number:
DT20 .A61785 2000X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_749357
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Heiler, Rituale und Patienten : Schamanismus in den Anden Ecuadors / Bernhard Wörrle

Author:
Wörrle, Bernhard 1968-  Search this
Physical description:
408 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Ecuador
Date:
2002
C2002
Topic:
Shamanism  Search this
Medicine  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Call number:
F3721.3.M4 W67 2002
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_715874
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La médecine et les médecins au Lessouto

Author:
Dieterlen, H  Search this
Physical description:
72 p. 20 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Lesotho
Date:
1930
Topic:
Physicians  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Call number:
DT786.5 .D56 1930
DT786.5.D56 1930
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_387744
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Alte und neue Volksmedizin : das Hausbuch "Der Bötldoktor" / neu gefaßt von Peter Heinsberg

Title:
Hausbuch "Der Bötldoktor"
Bötldoktor
Author:
Heinsberg, Peter  Search this
Physical description:
285 p. ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Germany
Date:
1968
[1968]
Topic:
Herbs--Therapeutic use--History  Search this
Traditional medicine--History  Search this
Botany, Medical--History  Search this
Call number:
RM666.H33 H46 1968
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_906043
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The empire of the snakes, by F. G. Carnochan and Hans Christian Adamson

Author:
Carnochan, Frederic Grosvenor 1890-1952  Search this
Adamson, Hans Christian  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 1 l., 290 p. 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Tanzania
Date:
1935
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT440 .C37X
DT440.C37X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_87649
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Traditional medicine in contemporary China : a partial translation of Revised outline of Chinese medicine (1972) : with an introductory study on change in present day and early medicine / Nathan Sivin

Author:
Sivin, Nathan  Search this
University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies  Search this
Physical description:
xxx, 549 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1987
Topic:
Medicine, Chinese  Search this
Call number:
R601.H692513 1987X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_394014
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Traditional medical practices in some Somali communities / Hassan I. Yussuf, Abdulaziz S. Adan, Kassim A. Egal, Abdurahman H. Omar, Maryam M. Ibrahim, Abdulahi S. Elmi

Author:
Yussuf, Hassan I  Search this
Adan, Abdulaziz S  Search this
Egal, Kassim A  Search this
Omar, Abdurahman H  Search this
Ibrahim, Maryam M  Search this
Elmi, Abdullahi Sheikh  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Somalia
Date:
1984
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Healing  Search this
Somalis--Health and hygiene  Search this
Somalis--Medical care  Search this
Somalis--Diseases  Search this
Somalis--Medicine  Search this
Call number:
DT401.13 .I57 1983X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_750573
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Survival, pioneer, Indian and wilderness lore / by Elsie J. Cummings and Wavie J. Charlton

Author:
Cummings, Elsie J  Search this
Charlton, Wavie J  Search this
Physical description:
208 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Type:
Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc
Place:
United States
Date:
1971
©1971
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Survival and emergency equipment  Search this
Survival and emergency rations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1051922
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Use of plants in Somali traditional medicine / Abdulahi S. Elmi, Abdullahi M. Ahmed, Yacoub A. Abdi

Author:
Elmi, Abdullahi Sheikh  Search this
Ahmed, Abdullahi Mohammed  Search this
Abdi, Y. A (Yakoub Aden)  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Somalia
Date:
1984
Topic:
Medicinal plants  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Healers  Search this
Herbs--Therapeutic use  Search this
Medicine  Search this
Call number:
DT401.13 .I57 1983X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_750574
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Social basis of illness : a search for therapeutic meaning

Author:
Onu, Augustine Onyekwelu  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa
Date:
1999
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Diseases--Causes and theories of causation  Search this
Call number:
DT470 .W516
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_735013
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The forest : an African traditional definition / Ekpe Inyang

Author:
Inyang, Ekpe 1963-  Search this
Physical description:
vi, 24 pages ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Africa
Date:
2015
Topic:
Forest ecology  Search this
Indigenous peoples--Ecology  Search this
Forest conservation  Search this
Human-plant relationships  Search this
Ethnobotany  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1047290
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The medical outfit of Wamanyika doctor / by Denys Shropshire

Author:
Shropshire, Denys William Tinniswood  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Zimbabwe
Date:
1928
Topic:
Manyika (African people)--Medicine  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Manyika healers  Search this
Call number:
DT962 .N126
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1054092
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Analyse des relations de conflit entre médecin et tradithérapeutes à Lomé au Togo / Djabéna Dago Sambiani

Author:
Sambiani, Djabéna Dago  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Togo
Lomé
Date:
2006
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Healers  Search this
Medical care  Search this
Physicians  Search this
Call number:
DT582.A2 E85
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1056983
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The art of healing in Africa : between tradition and modernity = Art de guérir en Afrique : entre tradition et modernité = Arte de curar em Africa : entre a tradição a modernidade = Gyógyítás müvészete Afrikában : A gyógyitás művészete Afrikában : hagyomány és modernitás között / [general coordination, Thierry Appelboom, José Luís Doria ; studies by Thierry Appelbom Fabrice d...

Title:
Art de guérir en Afrique : entre tradition et modernité
Arte de curar em Africa : entre a Tradição a Modernidade
Gyógyítás müvészete Afrikában : hagyomány és modernitás között
Author:
Appelboom, Thierry  Search this
Brouwer, Fabrice de  Search this
Földessy, Edina  Search this
Oliveira, Luís N. de Ferraz  Search this
Coordinator:
Doria, José Luís  Search this
Publisher:
Université libre de Bruxelles Musée de la médecine  Search this
Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum, Könyvtár és Levéltár  Search this
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa  Search this
Physical description:
363 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
Africa
Date:
2005
Topic:
Healing--Religious aspects  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Medicine in art  Search this
Sculpture, African  Search this
Fetishes (Ceremonial objects)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1058044
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Ein Stockholmer mittelniederdeutsches Arzneibuch aus der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts / von Agi Lindgren

Author:
Lindgren, Agi 1908-  Search this
Physical description:
249 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill
Type:
Books
Place:
Germany
Date:
1967
Topic:
Traditional medicine  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_907445
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Eduardo el curandero : the words of a Peruvian healer / Eduardo Calderón ... [et al.]

Author:
Calderón, Eduardo 1930-  Search this
Subject:
Calderón, Eduardo 1930-  Search this
Physical description:
140 p. : ill ; 23 cm
Type:
Biography
Case studies
Place:
Peru
Date:
1999
C1999
Topic:
Healers  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Mental healing  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_907950
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Messages from the gods : a guide to the useful plants of Belize / Michael J. Balick and Rosita Arvigo

Title:
Guide to the useful plants of Belize
Author:
Balick, Michael J. 1952-  Search this
Arvigo, Rosita  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Belize
Date:
2014
Topic:
Medicinal plants  Search this
Traditional medicine  Search this
Healers  Search this
Ethnobotany  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1047208

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