Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health

200 Pages·1958·19.4 MB·English

by  D. C. Jarvis , Dr. DeForest Clinton Jarvis M.D.

The book
best-selling
Vermont
describing
folk practices, particu-
larly the use of honey
and apple cider vinegar
MEDICINE
FOLK
by D. C. JARVIS, M.B.
Here and abroad hundreds of
thousands of people have bought
book, and read
best-selling
this
about the lore of
with fascination
Vermont folk medicine.
Among many people of the state
-
Vermont as indeed in other
of
—
areas of the world there is faithful
dependence on the
and confident
use of various natural products of
the earth for certain ailments of
human and domestic animals.
medicine
The regimens of folk
are not the products of scientific
Rather, they evolved in
research.
early times in the absence of it.
They were usually the result of
experimentation of
trial-and-error
community.
nonprofessional
the
have
and practices
Prescriptions
been handed down from genera-
A mixture of
generation.
tion to
apple cider vinegar and honey, for
example, has been a favoiite staple
many Vermont fami-
of the diet of
lies for countless years.
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FOLK MEDICINE
A Vermont Doctor’s Guide to Good Health

FOLK
MEDICINE
A
Vermont Doctors Guide
Good
Health
to
By D. c. JARVIS, M.D.
HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO
/ /
©
Copyright 1958 by D. C. Jarvis
All rights reserved, including the right to re-
produce this book or portions thereof in any form.
In Canada, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
of Canada, Limited.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-6454
Published, February, 1958
Twenty-eighth Printing, June, 1974
ISBN: 0-03-027410-9
Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated to
my daughter, Sylvia Jarvis Smith, and my grandson,
Jarvis Fred Smith
To
convey to them through the written word
the folk medicine of Vermont
which one generation of native Vermonters, living close
to the soil, hands on by word of mouth to
succeeding generations.