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One spring day, 15 years ago, I (AP) visited the Warburg Library in London in
search of some old medico-folkloric papers focusing on the Mediterranean area.
While I was searching for this, I noticed a hidden, old, dusty, monograph, which
captured my attention since it was located at the edge between the Mediterranean
and the Eastern European sections. It was Leopold Glück’s work on folkloric medicine and ethnobotany in Bosnia, probably the first modern ethnobotanical work ever
written in Southeastern Europe (Glück 1894); I had never heard of it before, neither
had I ever found this reference, and I still remember the trepidation with which I
copied the monograph and ran home to read it. |
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