Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World TraditionsBloomsbury Academic, 2004 - 392페이지 A wide-ranging compilation on the materia medica of the ordinary people of Britain and North America, comparing practices in both places. |
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... rubbed onto the scalp to pre- vent baldness ( Souter 1995 : 164 ) . Rubbing on the dung of various animals was rec- ommended not only in folk medicine but also in the official pharmacopoeia at least until the eighteenth century . As ...
... rubbed with the fluffy inside of the broad bean pod . This remedy is widespread throughout Britain and persisted well into the twentieth century ( Hatfield 1999 : 148 ; Vickery 1995 : 50 ; Allen 1995 : 176 ) . In Devon , the same remedy ...
... rubbed on chilblains in Essex ( Hatfield 1994 : appen- dix ) . In the Highlands of Scotland , deer tal- low was rubbed on chilblains ( Beith 1995 : 170 ) . Dipping in urine was used here too , or in a solution of washing soda and hot ...