Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy)
<p>Abstract</p> <p>In Italy, malaria was an endemic disease that was eradicated by the mid-20th century. This paper evaluates the prophylactic and therapeutic remedies used by folk medicine to cure malaria in Calabria (southern Italy).</p> <p>The data has been collected...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
Online Access: | http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/6/1/27 |