Author: Robert S. Root-Bernstein
Edition: 1
Publisher: Mariner Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0395924928
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels
This book covers remedies from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, and challenges the myth that modern clinical practice is the only effective form of medicine. Medical books Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels. The authors find that modern research often reveals a rational basis for supposedly outdated ideas. Most important, an increasing number of physicians, pharmaceutical researchers, and scientists are beginning to recognize the wealth of knowledge that can be retrieved from abandoned practices of earlier eras in Western medicine and from outside the boundaries of Western ideas entirely.Eating clay, drinking urine, applying honey to deep wounds and mere plaster to crushed bones: these are all folk remedies for ailments, passed on through the generations and thoroughly discounted by modern science. It is too bad, write scientist-historian couple Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, who deplore the loss of proven methods developed without the blessing of the academy, noting that "formal academic systems are only one of many ways in which knowledge is discovered, accumulated, and transmitted Medical books Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels: Scien..., 9780330373784. Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels: Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales, ISBN-13: 9780330373784, ISBN-10: 0330373781
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payment | shipping rates | returns Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales [Hardcover] Robert S. Root-Bernstein, Michele M. Root-Bernstein (Author) Product Details:Please note: All books are listed via ISBN and may be different from stock photo.Contains water damage. Does not effect reading. Gently used ex library book with typical stamps, stickers, and markings. Hardcover: 279 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (1997-09-30)ISBN: 0395
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by Robert Root-Bernstein - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1997) - Paperback - ISBN 0395924928 9780395924921
Medical Book Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels
The authors find that modern research often reveals a rational basis for supposedly outdated ideas. Most important, an increasing number of physicians, pharmaceutical researchers, and scientists are beginning to recognize the wealth of knowledge that can be retrieved from abandoned practices of earlier eras in Western medicine and from outside the boundaries of Western ideas entirely.Eating clay, drinking urine, applying honey to deep wounds and mere plaster to crushed bones: these are all folk remedies for ailments, passed on through the generations and thoroughly discounted by modern science. It is too bad, write scientist-historian couple Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein, who deplore the loss of proven methods developed without the blessing of the academy, noting that "formal academic systems are only one of many ways in which knowledge is discovered, accumulated, and transmitted." Many scientists are now coming to agree with this view, they write in this fascinating collection of case studies. Researchers have showed that black tea, for instance, has powerful antibiotic properties and that maggots do an extraordinary job of cleaning wounds--as traditional healers have known all along.
