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Native African Medicine : With Special Reference to Its Practice in the Mano Tribe of Liberia / George Way Harley.

De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Archive 1896-1999 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Harley, George Way, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mano (African people).
Medicine--Africa.
Medicine.
Medicine--Liberia.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Medicine, Traditional.
Local Subjects:
Mano (African people).
Medicine--Africa.
Medicine--Liberia.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Medicine, Traditional.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 p.): 1 Frontispiz, 1 Kte
Edition:
Reprint 2014
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
No detailed description available for "Native African Medicine".
Contents:
Frontmatter
INTRODUCTORY NOTE / S. Coon, Carleton
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE ΜΑΝΟ PEOPLE
CHAPTER II. MEDICINE IN GENERAL, OR MAN'S CONTROL OF HIDDEN POWER
CHAPTER III. MEDICINE DISTINGUISHED FROM RELIGION
CHAPTER IV. THE ΜΑΝΟ CONCEPTION OF DISEASE
CHAPTER V. RATIONAL TREATMENT OF DISEASE
CHAPTER VI. MAGICAL TREATMENT OF DISEASE
CHAPTER VII. TREATMENT OF DISEASE, PARTLY RATIONAL, PARTLY MAGICAL
CHAPTER VIII. TREATMENT OF SNAKEBITE
CHAPTER IX. THE BA KONA, A SOCIETY FOR THE TREATMENT OF SNAKEBITE
CHAPTER Χ. MEDICINE IN THE PORO
CHAPTER XI. MEDICINE IN CERTAIN OTHER SECRET SOCIETIES
CHAPTER XII. BLACK MAGIC AND POISON
CHAPTER XIII. DIVINATION
CHAPTER XIV. SPECIAL MEDICINES AND SACRED OBJECTS
CHAPTER XV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER NATIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE IN AFRICA AS A WHOLE
APPENDIX. EXCERPTS FROM THE LITERATURE ON AFRICAN MEDICINE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOTANICAL LIST
INDEX
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-674-18304-5
OCLC:
1013956903

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