"Under different aspects of space and time, all phases of folk-medicine and ancient medicine have been essentially alike in tendency, differing only in unimportant details. In the light of anthropology, this proposition may be taken as proved. Cuneiform, hieroglyphic, runic, and palm-leaf inscriptions all indicate that the folk-ways of early medicine, whether Accadian or Scandinavian, Slavic or Celtic, Roman or Polynesian, have been the same—in each case an affair of charms and spells, plant lore and psychotherapy, to stave off the effects of supernatural agencies."
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Fielding Hudson Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, with Medical Chronology, Bibliographic Data and Test Questions (1921)
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