Sound Recording, [North Yorkshire]

Description

Dr. Lawson, recorded by himself in Scarborough; talks about a BBC'Look North' television programme which included a feature on traditional medicine; relates a story (heard whilst serving as a ship's surgeon and visiting Durban) concerning a native doctor who treated a stroke victim with water made from railway engine and crushed gramophone records, and the logic behind using these ingredients; mentions other stories about traditional medicine, heard when a General Practitioner, but gives no details.

Metadata

Identifier f7cdfp9s
IRN 414786
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A735r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/f7cdfp9s
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Lawson, Dr
Date [1970s]
Size and Medium 1 x 17.8cm open reel spool, Duration: 5' 16".

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