Folk remedy use in the inner city

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 795-798

  Plotkin, Scott R ^a,b   Post, Robert ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box L 59 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DIAPER DERMATITIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; TINEA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0032838042     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199908000-00009     Document Type: Article

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