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Healing Earths : The Third Leg of Medicine by W. Rudolph Reinbacher (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Publication Year2002

Book TitleHealing Earths : the Third Leg of Medicine

Number of Pages260 Pages

LanguageEnglish

AuthorW. Rudolph Reinbacher

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.3 in

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SynopsisNo attempt to write an encompassing history of minerals in medicine has been made in modern times. Minerals, even today a major source of pharmaceuticals, have always lagged in recognition behind medicines from plants and from animals. This book traces the history of "earths" used for curing illnesses from thousands of years before the Christian era to today. It was 100 years ago that a German physician used white clay to conquer cholera, as frightening a scourge of humankind as pestilence. The book describes the early trials, tests on wounds and with severe gastrointestinal complaints. The book then approaches history of geophagy, eating of earth, as a human habit and discusses medicinal earths in antiquity in China, India, Egypt, the Fertile Crescent and Europe. Following a discussion of medical stones, mostly amulets, the history of healing earths continues through late antiquity and the Middle Ages. After describing alum and clay earths in commercial use, the narrative of healing earths enters into the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century. About forty rare illustrations trace the use of earths in medicine. The most famous medicinal earth, Terra sigillata, is explored in an annotated text of a sixteenth century document.