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The cure for serpents: this Mkamba Mundu-mua (Swahili mganga) is tre ating an old woman complaining of pains in her chest

The cure for serpents: this Mkamba Mundu-mua (Swahili mganga) is tre ating an old woman complaining of pains in her chest - Item

She has extensive scarring probably from an old breast abscess and f rom previous treatment at the hands of native doctors. He is sucking ot "foreign bodies" medical history back thousands of years is full of th is 'cure for serpent' theme- removing imagined foreign bodies from stic ks and stones to snakes and worms from patients. This fellow treats men tal illness by digging a hole putting the patient in it taking him out sacrificing a sheep cutting off its head and burying the head (= patien t's head = madness) in the same hole and sending away the patient who i s not to look back. Kitui

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Photography-- Tanzania
photos-- Tanzania