Item Detail
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29282
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English
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Pioneer Mormon Remedies
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Western Folklore
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16
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3
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Grass Valley, CA
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Western States Folklore Society
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153-162
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"We approach the subject of the folk remedies of Mormonia with a great deal of caution. To treat this subject with enlightenment would require the combined training of a folklorist, a medical doctor, and a botanist. And while, in many of the practices which we shall enumerate, the presence of magical formulas is evident, it would be rather difficult in many cases to say whether or not a given remedy, no matter how fantastic, might actually have had beneficial therapeutic effects." [From the text]