Download or read book Home Medicine written by J. K. Crellin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Crellin assesses popular home remedies from amulets to Zam-Buk ointment, revealing traditional - often ingenious - ways of coping with common health problems. Home Medicine is both a comprehensive reference to folk cures and self-treatment and a social history of pharmaceutical practices and products in Newfoundland.