Medicinal teas and patent medicines: African-American women's consumer choices and ethnomedical traditions at a Louisiana Plantation

Southeastern Archaeology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-131

  Wilkie, Laurie A ^a  

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