Bill Wannan’s Folk Medicine by Bill Wannan

Bill Wannan’s Folk Medicine

A Miscellany of Old Cures and Remedies, Superstitions, and Old Wives’ Tales Having Particular Reference to Australia and the British Isles

by Bill Wannan

Sun Books, 1977, ISBN 0725102497, black and white line drawings, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, sunned spine (see photographs)

“Australian folklorist, Bill Wannan, has collected here an hilarious and horrendous selection of the old wives’ tales, ‘quack’ physician cures and early settlers’ remedies used by our forebears.  In those does when doctors were few and superstition was rife, people depended on the mysterious concoctions produced by colourful travelling ‘quacks’ or cures that had been in the family for generations.”

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