Published 2011-05-01
“…Based on the documents preserved in several
museums and archives in Tartu and Tallinn (the Estonian
Health Care
Museum, the Estonian State Archives, the Estonian Historical Archives, the Estonian Folklore Archives and the Estonian
National Museum), the article will give an overview of the views of the director of the Estonian
Museum of Hygiene, Voldemar Sumberg, on the relationship between folk
medicine and modern
medicine; the data on folk
medicine collecting campaigns with Sumberg's involvement in the 1920s; and the fate of the folk
medicine records and items collected by the
Museum of Hygiene during the 1920s and 1930s, according to the documentation and archival material found so far.…”
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