Impressions of Western Africa: With Remarks on the Diseases of the Climate and a Report on the Peculiarities of Trade Up the Rivers in the Bight of Biafra
Impressions of Western Africa: With Remarks on the Diseases of the Climate and a Report on the Peculiarities of Trade Up the Rivers in the Bight of Biafra
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... a malady on his neighbour. He is reputed to derive his knowledge by education, but is not the bearer of a diploma, save one in his title. The " Abiadiong " squats himself beside the sick man--repeats a number of incantations--tosses strings of beads he has in his hand, as an appeal to the spirit he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... a malady on his neighbour. He is reputed to derive his knowledge by education, but is not the bearer of a diploma, save one in his title. The " Abiadiong " squats himself beside the sick man--repeats a number of incantations--tosses strings of beads he has in his hand, as an appeal to the spirit he invokes--rubs the beads alternately on his own body and that of the sick man--cogitates and decides. Sometimes the decision is settled by a little " copper palaver " beforehand; and as the Egbo law gives to the possessor of its privileges an unlimited power in this respect, it may be imagined what scenes of blood the system creates and fosters. " Abia-bok" is the title which in this country is given to a doctor of medicine; but the Kalabarese have little faith in drugs, and surgical operations are generally performed by the soft sex. These are confined to two species of cupping--the dry and the bloody--and to enema administering. The dry cupping is effected with a pyriform calabash upon the breasts of young women, whose bodies are chalked over at the same time, to force them to maturity. Razors are used as scarificators in moist cupping the side and temples of persons labouring under, what they suppose to be, congestive diseases. Ulcers are usually dressed by a piece of leaf passed round the diseased part, and fastened by a bamboo stem. A poison-bean, with a string through a hole bored in it, is frequently worn as a curative ju-ju round a sore leg, --only a modification of the similia similibus curantur system. Perhaps it is to carry out a like idea that dogs are buried in the ground with their heads above the ground, where the poor creatures spend three or four days before nature conquers their power of life, for...
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