Country Folk Medicine: Tales of Skunk Oil, Sassafras Tea, and Other Old-Time Remedies

by Elisabeth Janos

Book Overview

A compilation of old-fashioned remedies, based on interviews with senior citizens throughout New England and New York, provides a portrait of North East America at the turn of the century and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871064375
• ISBN13: 9780871064370
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Authentic window into ingenious remedies from days gone by!!

Ms Janos has that rare capacity to intimately recall an era of natural remedies, self sufficient solutions and perceptive observation by ordinary folk , resulting in a compendium of valuable and long forgotten secrets of the body and soul.