Folk Medicine: Miscellaneous
Description
This file contains items relating to medicine and beliefs, including an ms. letter and typed anecdote from Mr. S. J. Tyrell of Rugby (Warwickshire), on the belief that reciting Bible text can stem bleeding (31 January 1962); a photocopy of an article by H. C. T. Smith and E. J. Eastham on an outbreak of hysterical symptoms among jazz band members at a gala in Hazlerigg(Tyne and Wear) in 1972, from 'The Lancet' (27 June 1973), pp. 956-958; and a mounted newspaper cutting from the 'Yorkshire Post' on Margaret Bunnett, the district nurse at Kettlewell (North Yorkshire), (17 December 1970). File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | cv3cqmfz |
| IRN | 410681 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/8/1/1 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/cv3cqmfz |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Cures and Causes |
| Date | 1962-1973 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of typed, ms. and photocopied papers, and a mounted newspaper cutting. |