Black, William George.

Folk Medicine: A Chapter in the History of Culture. Publication of the Folk-Lore Society, for collecting and printing relics of popular antiquities & c.

Special reprint edition of London, Elliot Stock, 1883. Delanco NJ, The Classics of Medicine Library, 2001. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. II, 228 pages. Beautifully bound Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornament on spine with raised boards. Gilt design and ruling to boards. All edges gilt. Dutch marbling to pastedowns and endpapers. Red silk ribbon bookmarker. Near fine conditon externally and internally. [The Classics of Medicine Library]

Includes, for example, the following: Introduction: Origin of Disease / Transference of Disease / Sympathy and Association of Ideas / New Birth and Sacrifice / Our Lord and the Saints in Folk-Medicine / Charms Connected with Death or the Grave / Colour / (1) Number – (2) Influence of the Sun and Moon / Personal Cures / Animal Cures / Specific Charms: (1) Magic Writings – (2) Rings / Domestic Folk-Medicine / The Place of Folk-Medicine in the Study of Civilization etc.

Enclosed Ephemera: ‘Notes from the Editors’ 11-page Booklet with introductory essays on folk-medicine.
William George Black CBE (23 December 1857 – 21 December 1932) was a Scottish antiquary, lawyer and politician from Glasgow.
The study was published under the auspices of the Folk-Lore Society.
The Folk-Lore Society was founded in London in 1878 to study traditional vernacular culture, including traditional music, song, dance and drama, narrative, arts and crafts, customs and belief. The journal began as The Folk-Lore Record in 1878, continued or was restarted as The Folk-Lore Journal, and from 1890 its issues were compiled as volumes entitled “Folk-Lore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, & Custom. Incorporating The Archæological Review and The Folk-Lore Journal”. Joseph Jacobs edited the first four annual volumes as the Quarterly Review, succeeded by Alfred Nutt. As the head of David Nutt (publishing house) in the Strand, Alfred Nutt was the publisher from 1890 (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: [The Classics of Medicine Library] · 19th Century · Animism · Catalogue Autumn 2020 · Catalogue Nine – Medicine · Catalogue No.9 – Medicine · Childbirth · Customs Rituals etc · Disease · Folk history · Folklore · Human body · Magic · Medical · Medicine · Medicine – Rare · Medicine Native · Sacrifice(s) · Supernatural · Superstitution
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120342AB

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