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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| description | <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 by analysing works of physicians, ethnographers, folklorists and specialists of the study of Calabrian history between the end of the 19th century and the 20th century. The data collected have allowed us to describe the most common cures used by the Calabrian people to treat malaria and the most evident symptoms of this disease, such as intermittent fever, hepato-spleenomegaly, asthenia and dropsy. This approach uncovered a heterogeneous <it>corpus </it>of empirical, magical and religious remedies, which the authors have investigated as evidences of past "expert medicine" and to verify their real effectiveness in the treatment of malaria.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-112c262219c04ef38285e97c21b6ff962022-12-21T21:04:23ZengBMCJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine1746-42692010-09-01612710.1186/1746-4269-6-27Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy)Tagarelli AntonioTagarelli GiuseppePiro Anna<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 by analysing works of physicians, ethnographers, folklorists and specialists of the study of Calabrian history between the end of the 19th century and the 20th century. The data collected have allowed us to describe the most common cures used by the Calabrian people to treat malaria and the most evident symptoms of this disease, such as intermittent fever, hepato-spleenomegaly, asthenia and dropsy. This approach uncovered a heterogeneous <it>corpus </it>of empirical, magical and religious remedies, which the authors have investigated as evidences of past "expert medicine" and to verify their real effectiveness in the treatment of malaria.</p>http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/6/1/27 |
| spellingShingle | Tagarelli Antonio Tagarelli Giuseppe Piro Anna Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy) Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
| title | Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy) |
| title_full | Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy) |
| title_fullStr | Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy) |
| title_short | Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy) |
| title_sort | folk medicine used to heal malaria in calabria southern italy |
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