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Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy)

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). The data has been collected by analysing works of physicians, ethnographers, folklo...

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Autores principales: Tagarelli, Giuseppe, Tagarelli, Antonio, Piro, Anna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20849654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-6-27