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040			_a UG-KaMUL
245			_a The cure for serpents: this Mkamba Mundu-mua (Swahili mganga) is tre ating an old woman complaining of pains in her chest
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500			_a 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
506			_a Paid up registered users
524			_a AR/MAKPHOTOS/56/23
546			_a English
650			_a Photography _z Tanzania
650			_a photos _z Tanzania
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