Medicine Without Physicians: A History of Home Remedies

ACCESSIBILITY:

Large print labels: https://duke.box.com/v/medwodrlargeprintlabel

ACTIVITIES:

Print your own patent medicine boxes! Download layouts of patent medicine boxes taken from the Advertising Ephemera Collection, [1960s]-[1970s] from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marking History in the Rubenstein Library to create your own replicas.

• Mountain Herb Tea box: https://duke.box.com/v/mountainherbtea
• Al. Littlebear's Indian Herb Tonic bottle sleeve: https://duke.box.com/v/indianherbtonic

FURTHER READING:

Bolton Valenčius, Conevery. "The Health of the Country." How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. Basic Books, 2002.

Covey, Herbert C. African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments. Lexington Books, 2007.

Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes. Courier Corporation, 2013.

Goodson, Martia G. "Medical-Botanical Contributions of African Slave Women to American Medicine." The Western Journal of Black Studies 11, no. 4 (1987): 198. https://search.proquest.com/openview/ae66040824cfc9e019dcf938f532fb72/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1821483

Halberstein, Robert A. "Medicinal Plants: Historical and Cross-Cultural Usage Patterns." Annals of Epidemiology 15, no. 9 (2005): 686-699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2005.02.004.

Rosenberg, Charles E., ed. Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. JHU Press, 2003.

Sanjad, Nelson, Ermelinda Pataca, and Rafael Rogério Nascimento dos Santos. "Knowledge and Circulation of Plants: Unveiling the Participation of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples in the Construction of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Botany." HoST-Journal of History of Science and Technology 15, no. 1 (2021): 11-38. https://sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/host-2021-0002.

Suzuki, Nanami, ed., Healing Alternatives: Care and Education as a Cultural Lifestyle. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2014.

Tobyn, Graeme, Alison Denham, and Midge Whitelegg. The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge. Singing Dragon, 2016.

Voeks, Robert, and John Rashford, eds. African Ethnobotany in the Americas. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.

Vogel, Virgil J. American Indian Medicine. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.