Popular Medicine in the Basque Country

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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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Local healer in Zeanuri (B), 1921. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.

Herbal remedies in store. Elosua (G), 1983. Source: Miren Goñi, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.

Sarnapotzu, Magdalene of Arantzadi’s Hermitage. Berriatua (B), 1983. Source: Ander Manterola, 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