Folk Medicine in Lancashire
Description
A study of folk medicine (prophylactics, customs, beliefs and cures), past and present, in Lancashire. Research was based on fieldwork interviews and the consultation of printed sources. Ten chapters cover prevention, causes, beliefs surrounding death and children, charms used in cures, the application of a natural object, transferal cures, magical or superstitious actions and numbers, potions and preparations, modern folk medicine and herbalism. Photocopies of manuscript pages from general household books of 1722 and 1800 are included, as well as coloured drawings of common medicinal herbs.
Metadata
| Identifier | ym13z3xc |
| IRN | 410167 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/131 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ym13z3xc |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Bell, Wendy Marion |
| Date | 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 102 unbound typed leaves. |