Author: Tillhagen, Carl-Herman
Title: Papers on Folk-medicine : Given at an Inter-Nordic Symposium at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, 8-10 May 1961
Description: Stockholm, The Nordic Museum, [1964?]. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, (201) pp. Pagination runs 161-362. "Reprinted from ARV. Journal of Scandinavian Folklore, vol. 18-19, 1962-63".. Textual photo illustrations.. Rubbed. Spine bumped & torn. Good. ¶ Contains 11 papers. Includes: Basic facts concerning humoral pathology, and relics of these in the language & in folk-medicine; Medical magic in Linnæus' Dietetics; Curing "knarren" (peritendinitis or tendovaginitis); Gelehrte Tradition über angeborene Fehler in der Volks-medizin; The Street of "the Wise Women"; Lisa of Finnshult & her 'Smöjtra'"; On the effectivity of folk-medicine; Rational folk-medicine; Learned & popular traditions in Nordic veterinary folk medicine; The healing methods of the Lapps; Material and research methods within folk-medicine.

Keywords: Medicical Anthropology, Folk Medicine, Scandinavia, Scandinavian, Ethnology, Ethnography, Folklore, ,