medical lore

Then, she remembered her fascination with medical lore and healing magic.

More barely remembered medical lore came back to her.

The physicians had certainly seemed more congenial while they were sharing their medical lore.

Darvalo expected to learn more medical lore when he asked what they were for.

For decades or more, medical lore has suggested that a low-fat diet can yield substantial health benefits.

The books and recipes were collected from monasteries where scholars had preserved the medical lore.

But that was more than offset by a disastrous appearance in Boston, the center of medical lore of the time.

The roots of in absentia care reach deeply to ancient times, mixing with medical lore over nearly two thousand years.

But more surprising, she was picking up Iza's medical lore with what seemed to be a natural instinct.

During the flu epidemic of 1918, according to medical lore, victims were struck down almost in midstride.

But in our medical lore, it is said that asthmatics are suffused with sensitive feelings, that they take things to heart when others do not.

Gone were most of the volumes of medical lore he had collected over the years, especially the ones having to do with a Healer's special abilities.

Perhaps he would research the medical lore of the Elder Days and apply it to the present, much as the brothers had done to make his hand.

The legal and medical lore is in no way beyond the 'general information' which genius inevitably amasses from reading, conversation, reflection, and experience.

"I'm going over to the Administrative Center to meet with some physicians, but that's mostly to see if they've got any more local medical lore that I should know about."

The aetite, to be carried by pregnant women on their right side, is mentioned by Ruberto Bernardi in his 1364 book of popular medical lore.

One of the intriguing bits of medical lore about amenorrhea and exercise is the reluctance that some young women have solving their problem early by cutting back on exercise.

But, having been forced to see he needed a warrior's skills to survive on the steppe, he set about acquiring them with the same dogged persistence he gave to medical lore.

Having decided he needed the rudiments of the soldier's trade, he set about acquiring them as conscientiously as he had his medical lore, if not with the same burning interest.

Of course, it may be that I have a little fever - that wouldn't be surprizing; but the fever isn't one that has ever been classified in medical lore.

The first two books in the Leechbook are a collation of Mediterranean and English medical lore, whilst the third is the only surviving example of an early English medical textbook.

A prime example of this are the Yucatec Mayan Books of Chilam Balam, mentioned above for their historical content, but also containing treatises on medical lore, astrology, etc.

This was especially striking to Dr. Smith, he said, because "standard medical lore is that your own hair would be received as a foreign body" - that is, the patient's immune system would fight against it.

In the decade after her machete experience, Mrs. Maxwell made dozens of expeditions to the remotest regions of the upper Amazon, befriending the local Indians and slowly learning the secrets of their vast medical lore.