The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present
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| Management number | 232024260 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $9.98 | Model Number | 232024260 | ||
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This captivating history of medicine traces healing practices from the Stone Age to modern times, highlighting ancient knowledge and plant-based treatments. This absorbing history of medicine takes the reader on a sweeping journey, revealing that Western medicine has its origins not only in the academic tradition of doctors and pharmacists, but in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers. Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wolf D. Storl vividly describes the many ways that ancient peoples have used the plants in their immediate environment, along with handed-down knowledge and traditions, to treat the variety of ailments they encountered in daily life. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1623170931 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1623170936 |
| Edition | Illustrated |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
| Dimensions | 5.91 x 0.98 x 8.9 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.1 pounds |
| Print length | 344 pages |
| Publication date | March 21, 2017 |
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