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Folk-medicine

a chapter in the history of culture

Also known as Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture

by William George Black

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

This is the authoritative English work on medical folklore.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • Magic· via Internet Archive
    • Magic· via Open Library
    • Magic· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Mysticism”.

    • Mysticism· via Open Library

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 10 editions; 2 cataloged here.

a chapter in the history of culture

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1883London, Pub. for the Folk-lore Society by E. Stock; Pub. for the Folk-lore Society by E. StockEnglishPublic

a chapter in the history of culture.

Open Library record

1883Published for the Folk-lore Society by E. StockEnglishPublic

Subjects

5 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Cornell University Library
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 10 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: Kirtas APT 2400
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL18028521W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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