Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels: Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales
Author(s): Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
Many modern medical pracctices began as old wives' tales or folk remedies. "Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels" investigates a multicultural variety of age-old remedies often dismissed by 20th-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity.
General Information
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Pan Books
- : 0.19
- : 10 March 2000
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 615.882
- : 320
More About The Product
Robert Root-Bernstein's books include "Rethinking AIDS" and "Discovery", which won a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Michele Root-Bernstein's is the author of "Boulevard Theater and Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris" which won the Sierra Best Book Award from the Western Association of Women Historians.
