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Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound

By Anthony Booker, Reader in Ethnopharmacology, University of Westminster

Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

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