Hoosier Home Remedies

by Varro E. Tyler

Book Overview

With a sense of urgency, Dr. Tyler has collected and transcribed some 750 folk remedies still alive in the memories of more than 175 Hoosier-area correspondents. The pharmacologist, who has thirty years of experience with natural-product remedies, fears these cures will soon be forgotten, since modern medicine usually writes them off as hoax, and those who practice them are becoming fewer and fewer. For Tyler, however, folk medicine is worthy of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911198776
• ISBN13: 9780911198775
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"