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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
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description 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, 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 corpus 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.
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spelling pubmed-29498132010-10-06 Folk medicine used to heal malaria in Calabria (southern Italy) Tagarelli, Giuseppe Tagarelli, Antonio Piro, Anna J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Research 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, 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 corpus 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. BioMed Central 2010-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2949813/ /pubmed/20849654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-6-27 Text en Copyright ©2010 Tagarelli et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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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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url 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
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