Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, preachers and quacks alike. She shows how families passed down cures as heirlooms, how remedies crossed cultural and ethnic boundaries, and how domestic healers compounded native herbs and plants with exotic ingredients.
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Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, preachers and quacks alike. She shows how families passed down cures as heirlooms, how remedies crossed cultural and ethnic boundaries, and how domestic healers compounded native herbs and plants with exotic ingredients.
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