Wellcome Medical Folklore Calendar
- Date:
- 1968
- Reference:
- WF/M/PB/31/07
- Part of:
- Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Burroughs Wellcome & Co. desk/hanging calendar illlustrated with tales of folklore. Includes advertisements for Wellcome products.
The folklore tales are taken from the following works: B. Bonnerjea, A Dictionary of Supersitions and Mythology; E. & M. A. Radford, Encyclopaedia of Supersitions and Lean's Collecteanea. Vol. 2, Bristol, 1902 (author not given).
Some examples of the tales included are as follows: a cure for ailments, particularly for a bad chest (drinking milk from a red cow); a cure for earache (holding a hot roasted onion against the infected ear) and a cure for gout (walking in the fields on a Friday morning before sunrise).
Publication/Creation
1968
Physical description
1 item
Copyright note
Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores