Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales by Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, Robert Bernstein, Michèle Root-Bernstein
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales
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Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, Robert Bernstein, Michèle Root-Bernstein
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Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales

Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, Robert Bernstein, Michèle Root-Bernstein

288 pages • first pub 1997 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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This book covers remedies from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, and challenges the myth that modern clinical practice is the only effective form of medicine. The authors find that modern research often reveals a rat...

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