Grandma's remedies: a guide to traditional cures and treatments from mustard poultices to rosehip syrup

Chappell, Cherry

Grandma's remedies: a guide to traditional cures and treatments from mustard poultices to rosehip syrup - Random House 2009 - xvii, 254 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Discover how people survived in the days before the NHS and readily-available antibiotics and painkillers, when all people had to rely on was a garden, a larder and a healthy dose of common sense. Cherry Chappell presents recipes for the treatments people used and also looks at the role of women healers.

9781905211173 1905211171


Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
Women healers--History

615.88 CHA