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Jamaican Medicinal Herbs of the 18th Century: Legacy from the Past - Answers for the Future:

By Arvilla Payne-Jackson, Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg, Henry Lowe
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By Arvilla Payne-Jackson, Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg, Henry Lowe
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The Caribbean offers one of the most complex ethnological reservoirs of beliefs and traditional medical knowledge in the world. This book examines the traditional medical practices of the 18th century Jamaica and 277 medicinal herbs used in the treatment of 189 identified illnesses in John Lunan's work "Hortus Jamaicensis or Botanical Description..." published in 1814. The aim and scope of this book are five-fold.
To provide a complete list of the 277 medicinal herbs recorded in Lunan's work...

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