Popular Medicine in the Basque Country

Traditional Medicine in the Basque Country

Beyond the scientific paradigm: traditional remedies and popular attitudes towards disease, health and the human body.

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Vaccination agains poliomyelitis, 1964. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Arqué Collection.

Hermitage of St Engratia. Segura (G). Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.

Chamomile. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.

Outstanding contents

Medicine in the Basque Country

Symptoms and general remedies

Medicine in the Basque Country

Folk medicine

Medicine in the Basque Country

Fractures and dislocations

Medicine in the Basque Country

Beliefs about the cause of some diseases