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An abstract from Dr. Berkley's [sic] treatise on tar-water, with some reflexions theron, adapted to diseases frequent in America. By a friend to the country.
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- New-York, Printed and sold by J. Parker, 1745.
- 1745
Medizin und Okkultismus um die Jahrhundertwende <1875-1925>.
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- Zürich, Juris-Verlag, 1967.
- 1967
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 73-870 Offsite Infant health in Lebanon; customs and taboos.
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- Beirut, Khayats, 1965.
- 1965
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLD 75-2995 Offsite Philippine medical superstitions told in parables.
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- Lingayen, Pangasinan, Gumawid Press [c1960]
- 1960
- 1 Item
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Dictionary of medical folklore / Carol Ann Rinzler. 1st ed.
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- New York : Crowell, c1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
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The Sopono cult and smallpox vaccinations in Lagos [microform] / by Robert W. Morgan.
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- Brookline, Mass. African Studies Center, Boston University, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
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How superstition won and science lost : popularizing science and health in the United States / John C. Burnham.
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- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 88-1486 Offsite Supersticiones y medicina quechuas / Gilberto Cavero B.
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- Lima, Perú : Ministerio de la Presidencia : Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
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Health scare : the misuse of science in public health policy / J.R. Johnstone, Chris Ulyatt.
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- Perth, W.A. : Australian Institute for Public Policy, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JBD 91-1317 Offsite The great AIDS hoax / by T.C. Fry.
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- Austin, Tex. : Life Science Institute, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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The consumer's good chemical guide : a jargon-free guide to the chemicals of everyday life / John Emsley.
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- Oxford ; New York : W.H. Freeman, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 11-413 Offsite Iacobi Primirosii, doctoris medici, De vulgi in medicinâ erroribus libri quatuor ...
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- Londini : Apud B. A[lsop] & T. F[awcet] pro H. Robinsonio, ad insigne trium Columbarum in Coemeterio S. Pauli, 1638.
- 1638
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La medecine sans medecin; dictionaire de remèdes populaires. Etude de folklore.
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- Liege, F. Gothier, 1933.
- 1933
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text C-10 2537 Offsite Aberglaube und Medizin.
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- Berlin, Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, 1959.
- 1959
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Schach dem Aberglauben.
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- Berlin, Volk und Gesundheit, 1961.
- 1961
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The doctors' dilemmas.
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- New York, Harper [1962]
- 1962
- 1 Item
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The anxiety makers: some curious preoccupations of the medical profession [by] Alex Comfort.
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- London, Nelson, 1967.
- 1967
- 1 Item
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A philosophical essay on credulity and superstition; and also on animal fascination, or charming. by Rufus Blakeman...
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- New York, D. Appleton & co.; New Haven, S. Babcock, 1849.
- 1849
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YN (Blakeman, R. Philosophical essay on credulity and superstition) Offsite Superstition in medicine, by Prof. Dr. Hugo Magnus; authorized translation from the German, ed. by Dr. Julius L. Salinger.
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- New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls company, 1905.
- 1905
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YN (Magnus, H. Superstition in medicine) Offsite Primitive psycho-therapy and quackery, by Robert Means Lawrence.
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- Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1910.
- 1910
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433068191703Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text YV (Lawrence, R. M. Primitive psycho-therapy and quackery) Offsite On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery. By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew ...
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- London, J. Churchill, 1844.
- 1844
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ZBC (Pettigrew, T. J. On superstitions) Offsite One hundred popular fallacies / by Charles W. Budden.
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- London : John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1932.
- 1932
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text WKV (Budden, C. W. One hundred popular fallacies) Offsite On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery. By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew ...
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- Philadelphia, E. Barrington and G. D. Haswell, 1844.
- 1844
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text WAC (Pettigrew, T. J. On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery) Offsite Shattering health superstitions; an explosion of false theories and notions in the field of health and popular medicine, by Morris Fishbein ...
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- New York, H. Liveright, inc., 1930.
- 1930
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text WAR (Fishbein, M. Shattering health superstitions) Offsite Doctors don't believe it - why should you? Facts and fallacies about health, with practical guidance for the layman, by August A. Thomen, M.D., with introductions by Logan Clendening, M.D. and the Right Honorable Lord Horder.
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- New York, Simon and Schuster, 1941.
- 1941
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text WAR (Thomen, A. A. Doctors don't believe it - why should you) Offsite Don't believe it! says the doctor : false notions, errors, misconceptions and misinformation pertaining to health and hygiene, major ailments and cancer, minor ailments and remedies, food and diet, mind and senses, body, marriage and death; and health fallacies derived from superstition and folklore, explained and corrected / by August A. Thomen ; with foreword by Harlow Brooks.
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- New York : A.A. Thomen, c1935.
- 1935
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text WAR (Thomen, A. A. Don't believe it! says the doctor) Offsite White prescriptions? : the dangerous social potential for Ritalin and other psychotropic drugs to harm black boys / Terence D. Fitzgerald.
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- Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
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Fraudes y mistificaciones en publicaciones argentinas del siglo XX : información riesgosa para la salud : violación de las leyes e ineficacia en los controles / por Federico Pérgola, Agustín F. García Puga.
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- Buenos Aires : Librería Akadia Editorial, 2010.
- 2010
- 1 Item
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Tanzwut : Kosmos, Kirche und Mensch in der Bedeutungsgeschichte eines mittelalterlichen Krankheitskonzepts / Gregor Rohmann.
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- Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2013].
- 2013-2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 13-12141 Offsite Lessons from the history of medical delusions [electronic resource] / by Worthington Hooker.
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- New York : Baker & Scribner, 1850.
- 1850
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Check with Staff Not available - Please for assistance.The Medical reformer [electronic resource].
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- New-York : [s.n., 1823]
- 1823-1823
- 1 Resource
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http://ncco.galegroup.com/gdc/ncco/atp/AboutThisPublicationPortletWin?mCode=6AER&action=e&windowstate=normal&mode=view&userGroupName=nyplLes médecins en Afrique et la sorcellerie : une herméneutique de leur rencontre / Olivier Nkulu Kabamba.
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- Paris : L'Harmattan, [2014]
- 2014
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 18-8354 Offsite Remarks on some late animadversions of a licentiate upon the constitution of physick: intended to correct the misapprehensions of that author with regard to the College of Physicians and the English universities by a Cantab [electronic resource].
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- London : printed for the author, and sold by J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, [1768]
- 1768
- 1 Resource
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http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0521402000&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nyplInside chiropractic : a patient's guide / Samuel Homola ; edited by Stephen Barrett.
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- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
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Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, [electronic resource] : of various kinds, considered and refuted. By John Jones, M. B. Morbus Nobis Haec Otia Dedit.
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- London : printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell) In The Strand, 1797.
- 1797
- 1 Resource
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http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0269000400&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl¡Estafas a la salud! : no corra el riesgo.
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- [Rockville, MD] : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Women's Health, Office of Enforcement, [2009?]
- 2009
- 1 Resource
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo62332Popular errors [electronic resource] / Laurent Joubert ; translated and annotated by Gregory David de Rocher.
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1989.
- 1989
- 2 Resources
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The second part of the Popular errors [electronic resource] / Laurent Joubert ; translated and annotated by Gregory David de Rocher.
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1995.
- 1995
- 2 Resources
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Symptoms of unknown origin [electronic resource] : a medical odyssey / Clifton K. Meador.
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- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
- 2005
- 2 Resources
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The reemergence of vaccine-preventable diseases : exploring the public health successes and challenges : hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session ... February 10, 2015.
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- Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office, 2017.
- 2017
The Medical reformer [electronic resource].
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- New-York : [publisher not identified], [1823]
- 1823-1823
- 2 Resources
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The arsenic eaters / Simon Brugner ; editing Simon Brugner & Rob van Hoesel.
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- [Breda, Netherlands] : The Eriskay Connection, [2018]
- 2018-2018
- 1 Item
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I feel better with a frog in my throat : history's strangest cures / written and illustrated by Carlyn Beccia.
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.
- 2010
- 1 Item
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Desinformación y pandemia : la nueva realidad / Raúl Magallón Rosa.
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- Madrid : Pirámide, 2020.
- 2020
- 1 Item
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Viral BS : medical myths and why we fall for them / Dr. Seema Yasmin.
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
- 2021-2021
- 1 Item
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Der aberglauben in der medicin / von Prof. Dr. Hugo Magnus; mit 5 abbildungen im text.
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- Breslau : J.U. Kerr (M. Müller), 1903.
- 1903
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 610.9 M275 Off-site La Medicina delle nostre donne ; studio folklorico ... La psicologia delle superstizioni; lettera del...Paolo Mantegazza.
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- Castello : Lapi, 1892.
- 1892
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 610.9 Y1 Off-site The consumer's good chemical guide : a jargon-free guide to the chemicals of everyday life / John Emsley.
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- Oxford ; New York : W.H. Freeman, [1994]
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RA1213 .E47 1994 Off-site Chŏngsin ŭihak ŭi pulp'yŏnhan chinsil / O Ro-ji chiŭm.
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- Sŏul-si : Nunsol Sinabŭro, 2022.
- 2022
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RC435.2 .O27 2022 Off-site The antibiotic tales / Sonny Liew, Hsu Li Yang.
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- Singapore : Epigram, [2020]
- 2020-2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text RM267 .L54 2020g Off-site
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