Book Excerpts
Bush Medicine of the Bahamas:
A Cross-cultural Perspective from San Salvador Island,
including Pharmacology and Oral Histories
Publication date: September 8, 2011. 120 medicinal plants & hundreds of blends
396 pages with 161 illustrations (104 in color), 11.25" x 9" x 1" quality hardcover, ISBN 978-0-9837673-0-5
Hardcover: $37.00, E-book: $18.50
The following are page previews of Bush Medicine of the Bahamas.
All excerpts are provided for viewing as PDF files.
- Front Cover
- Book Jacket (front, back, and inside) [small image]
- Book Jacket (front, back, and inside) [large image]
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan (2 pages)
- Foreword by Kathleen Maier (3 pages)
- Chapter 3: Principles and Practices of Bush Medicine (first page of 7 pages)
- Chapter 5: Materia Medica - Medicinal Plants (first 6 pages of 177 pages)
- Glossary of Bahamian Dialect (first page of 3 pages)
- Index of Medicinal Plants According to Uses (partial first page of 5 pages)
- Index of Scientific Names (first page of 4 pages)
- Index of Common Names (first page of 11 pages)
- Subject Index (first page of 5 pages)
- References (first page of 11 pages)
- Color Plates of Medicinal Plants (first page of 28 pages) (image below)
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