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Title	Folk doctors, Doc Cox
Alternative Title	Folk healers; Folk cures; Doctors; Cures; Healers;
Genre	Legends -- People -- Eccentric
Description	Colleen Boone's transcribed interview of R.L.B. about Doc Cox. According to R.L.B., Doc Cox was an herb doctor with a big practice. He cured a growth from R.L.B.'s grandfather by painting something on it and covering it. Within weeks the growth dropped off. Cox was eventually arrested for practicing medicine without a license.
Informant	R.L.B.
Collector	Boone, Colleen
Date of Original	1971-05-08
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Sullivan County -- Sullivan -- 1971
Subject	Legends People People associated with health & safety Physicians Medical offices Medical offices Health care Medical personnel Folk cures Folk medicine
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-13
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-FolkDoctors007

Folk doctors, Doc Cox

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