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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Schmeller, Helmut J. |
| Title, Analytic | Folk Doctors and Home Remedies among Volga Germans in Kansas |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2001 |
| Volume ID | 36 |
| Location in Work | 157-165 |
| View Online | https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v36i |
| ISSN | 0741-2827 |
| Abstract | Folk doctors and traditional remedies retained a measure of some popularity well into the middle of the twentieth century among the Volga German settlers in western Kansas, perhaps because the methods of the folk doctors were more gentle and less threatening than the practices of professional physicians. While the religious component in some of the healing practices may have reduced the patient's anxiety and thus contributed to the healing process, it may be that the special relationship based on a common language and shared cultural background played the most important role in the persistence of folk medicine and folk doctors among the Volga Germans. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Russian Germans/ Culture/ Kansas/ German Americans -- Kansas/ Medicine & Health/ Folks-medicine |