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Article: Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales.
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- The World and I
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- March 1, 1998
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Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997 279 pp., $24.00
A wide-ranging study argues that scientists and physicians need to examine the hundreds of natural remedies discovered across the centuries and on every continent.
If you must drink urine, always make sure it is your own, advise the authors of Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels, a fascinating study of folk medicines. Follow the biblical proverb "Drink waters out of thine own cistern" and, it appears, you avoid exposure to infection. But why drink urine at all? Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein note that sufferers from dehydration, having no ready access ...