Folk-Medicine, Vol. 4: A Chapter in the History of Culture (Classic Reprint)

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It cannot be altogether vain to hope that reasons for investiga tion, of a precise kind, may also be found in the beliefs which are treated of in the following pages, and, although it has always been with hesitation that I have allowed myself to do more than place my notes before my readers, yet these beliefs, like living things, have a beginning and a reason, and some indulgence may perhaps be allowed to one who finds his barque sailing among strange islands.
I may go further, and affirm that in the matter of that which follows there is much which deserves attention. The facts are, indeed, so scattered up and down the pages of travels and his tories, of voyages and tales, that it is easy to excuse even a man interested in the proper study of mankind having but hazy notions of the thoughts of his rural countrymen on such a subject; yet, apart from other things, we have in the Folk Medicine which still exists the unwritten record of the be ginning of the practice of medicine and surgery.
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