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Folk Medicine: Miscellaneous

Archive File: LAVC/FLF/8/1/1

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Folk Medicine: Miscellaneous

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/FLF/8/1/1

Site Location(s): Subject - Kettlewell, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1469, -2.04809 )

Date(s): 1962-1973

Size and medium: 1 file of typed, ms. and photocopied papers, and a mounted newspaper cutting.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410681

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

This file contains items relating to medicine and beliefs, including an ms. letter and typed anecdote from Mr. S. J. Tyrell of Rugby (Warwickshire), on the belief that reciting Bible text can stem bleeding (31 January 1962); a photocopy of an article by H. C. T. Smith and E. J. Eastham on an outbreak of hysterical symptoms among jazz band members at a gala in Hazlerigg(Tyne and Wear) in 1972, from 'The Lancet' (27 June 1973), pp. 956-958; and a mounted newspaper cutting from the 'Yorkshire Post' on Margaret Bunnett, the district nurse at Kettlewell (North Yorkshire), (17 December 1970).


File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.

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