Folk Medicine in the Wirral Area

Description

An investigation of the folk remedies known by people living on the Wirral peninsula on Merseyside (not all of whom were born and brought up in the area). The Introduction describes the place of traditional remedies in modern society, with further sections on preventive measures, skin complaints (including cure recipes), general aches and pains, coughs, colds and allied complaints and internal disorders.

Metadata

Identifier yjbbgg15
IRN 410166
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/130
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/yjbbgg15
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Willan, Susan
Date 1974
Size and Medium 31 unbound typed leaves.

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