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Items with subject 'Folklife - Medicine'
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Folklife Collection - Folk Medicine from Inman, SC and Fletcher, NC
by Salisbury University Students (1977)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1977, former Salisbury University students and teachers collected folk life material. Frank L. Holden's collection deals with folk medicine used in South and North Carolina. Each text contains a brief description of the home remedy and the informant. The interviewer also commented on each remedy.
Folklife Collection - Folk Medicine in the Laurel Area
by Salisbury University Students (1975 – 1975)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1975, former Salisbury University student Faith Lynch collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of folk medicine from around Laurel, Delaware. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.
Folklife Collection - Folk Medicine: A View of Folk Remedies
by Salisbury University Students (1993)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1993, former Salisbury University student Julie Gellert collected folk material. She conducted a research on folk remedies. Her main informant was her grandmother who shared many cures used for generations in her family. Examples of these unconventional remedies are mustard plaster applied to the chest to cure a cold, heated salt plaster to soothe muscle pain or boiled tea bags to cure pink eye.
Folklife Collection - Folk Medicines
by Salisbury University Students (1973 – 1973s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1973, former Salisbury University students and professors collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of popular folk medicines and other home remedies from around the Eastern Shore. Most interviews include personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant, and the story.
Folklife Collection - Folklife of SSU Nursing
by Salisbury University Students (1995)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1995, former Salisbury University student Lisa Garrison collected folk material. Her collection explores the culture of Salisbury State University's nursing students, including their pinning ceremony and dress. Included is Garrison's essay.
Folklife Collection - Folklore collected in Federalsburg, Md.
by Salisbury University Students (1972 – 1972s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Federalsburg, Maryland residents in 1972, former Salisbury University student Yvonne Statum collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various popular folklore such as songs, legends, myths, speechs, medicines, and other stories. The collection also includes a brief introduction, and personal descriptions of the interviewer and informant..
Folklife Collection - Folklore Medicine
by Salisbury University Students (1976 – 1976)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1976, former Salisbury University student Judith C. Moody collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of folklore medicine from around the Eastern Shore. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.
Folklife Collection - Folklore of the Eastern Shore
by Salisbury University Students (1977)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1977, Salisbury University Student Barbara Grogan collected folk material consisting of home remedies, different recipes for bread, corn pone and soap as well as other household chores. Her paper includes a brief introduction of informants and the transcripts of their interviews.
Folklife Collection - Herbalism: Wise Women in the New Age
by Salisbury University Students (1993)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 1993, former Salisbury University student Pamela DeSanto collected folk material. Her project is about herbalism and two women who were seeking to become non-conventional healers ("wise ones"). Her paper recounts the difficulties that these women faced because of the negative image of their practices as well as the variety of concepts they studied (Wiccan studies, reiki, channeling, using crystal, etc.). In addition, Pamela researched and compiled a selection of common remedies from several books. She also included the transcripts of her interviews with her informants, which provide a great deal of details about their beliefs and their stories. Tape and pictures enclosed.
Folklife Collection - Home Remedies
by Salisbury University Students (1973 – 1973s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1973, former Salisbury University student Constance Kirk collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of popular home remedies from around the Eastern Shore. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, information about the informant, and the stories.
Folklife Collection - Home Remedies of the Eastern Shore
by Salisbury University Students (1992)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1992, Salisbury University students and teachers collected folk life material. For this project, Jennifer K. Brohawn collected home remedies from the Eastern Shore. She interviewed five residents and gathered a great deal of folk remedies such as using buttermilk to reduce freckles, using chewed tobacco to treat a bee sting, rusting a nail in an apple to get iron supplement, and many more.
Folklife Collection - Home Remedy Variations
by Salisbury University Students (1975 – 1975s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1975, former Salisbury University student Joyce A. Sherwood collected folk material. For this collection, these interviews focus on various stories of home remedies from around the Eastern Shore. The collection includes an introduction to the topic, personal descriptions of the interviewer and informants, and their stories.