Traditional medicine -- Africa, Central
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Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)
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Filed under: Traditional medicine- Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Erika Brady (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects (second edition; Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Iris F. F. Benzie and Sissi Wachtel-Galor (illustrated HTML at NIH)
- Vergleichende Volksmedizin: Eine Darstellung Volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin (2 volumes in German; Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1908-1909), ed. by Oskar von Hovorka and A. Kronfeld
- Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)
- Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), ed. by Chidi Oguamanam (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- The "Medicine-Man", or, Indian and Eskimo Notions of Medicine (1886), by Robert Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Recovery, Renewal, Reclaiming: Anthropological Research Toward Healing (selected papers from the 2013 annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society; Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2015), ed. by Lindsey King (PDF at Tennessee)
- Recipe Book (manuscript, 1705), by D. Petre (page images here at Penn)
- Man and Woman Their Own Doctor, or, a Salve for Every Sore: Being a Book Full of Rare Receipts for The Most Dangerous Distempers Incident To The Bodies of Men, Women, and Children, And Very Fit To Be in All Families, In This Crasie, Sickly, and Bad Times (London: Printed for L. White, 1676), by John Ponteus (page images at NIH)
- A Little Book of Rare Receipts for The Cure of Several Distempers: Viz, The King's Evil, Stone, Chollick, Black and Yellow Jaundice, Piles, Ague, Worms, Black Thrush in Children's Mouths, Breakings Out in Their Infancy, Rickets, Small-pox, The Itch, Etc., Set Forth For The Benefit of All Poor Christians (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, ca. 1710), by Giles Parsons (page images at NIH)
- Las Yerbas de la Gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #60; 1975), by Karen Cowan Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Las Yerbas de la Gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #60; 1975), by Karen Cowan Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, by Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook, Paw Paw, Michigan, 1866: A Facsimile of the First Known Cookbook by an African American (Ann Arbor: W. L. Clements Library, c2007), by Malinda Russell, ed. by Janice Bluestein Longone (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (Paw Paw, MI: Printed by T. O. Ward, 1866), by Malinda Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kung-Fu: or, Tauist Medical Gymnastics (1895), by John Dudgeon (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Falun Gong (fourth edition, 2001), by Li Hongzhi (HTML at falundafa.org)
- Zhuan Falun, by Li Hongzhi (HTML at falundafa.org)
- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)
- Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongst the Boloki and Other Congo tribes, With a Description of Their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion, and Laws (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1913), by John H. Weeks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Congo Life and Folklore (London: Religious Tract Society, 1911), by John H. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)
- The Black Journey: Across Central Africa With the Citroën Expedition (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1927), by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (page images at HathiTrust)
- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile: An Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911 (2 volumes; London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Adolf Friedrich
- Geographical Notes of Expeditions in Central Africa by Three Dutch Ladies (Liverpool: T. Brakell, 1864), by John A. Tinne (page images at Google)
- Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa (Toronto: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1886), ed. by J. T. Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871 (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Georg August Schweinfurth, trans. by Ellen E. Frewer, contrib. by Winwood Reade
- In Darkest Africa: or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Henry M. Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, by Samuel White Baker (Gutenberg text)
- The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration (2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Richard Francis Burton
- The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (originally published 1859), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF at burtoniana.org)
- Tramps Round the Mountains of the Moon and Through the Back Gate of the Congo State (London et al.: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by T. Broadwood Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H. B. M.'s Government in the Years 1849-1855 (5 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-1858), by Heinrich Barth
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman From August 1894 to November 1897, When Crossing the Dark Continent From the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo (London: A. and C. Black, 1899), by Edouard Foà, trans. by Frederic Lees (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Boy Travellers on the Congo: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1888), by Thomas Wallace Knox, contrib. by Henry M. Stanley
- Explorations in Africa, by Dr. David Livingstone, and Others, Giving a Full Account of the Stanley-Livingstone Expedition of Search, Under the Patronage of the New York "Herald", As Furnished by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley (1872), ed. by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, contrib. by David Livingstone and Henry M. Stanley (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- From Hausaland to Egypt, Through the Sudan (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by Karl Kumm
- From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist's Journey Across Africa (London: J. Murray, 1908), by A. F. R. Wollaston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa From the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Hermann von Wissmann, trans. by Minna J. A. Bergmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- Correspondenzblatt der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft (2 volumes bound together, covering 1873-1878), by Afrikanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland
- A Visit to Stanley's Rear-Guard at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi, With an Account of the River-Life on the Congo (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1889), by John Reinhardt Werner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- Children of the Wind (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1923), by M. P. Shiel (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The African Queen (1935), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
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