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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Harley, George Way,
• MitwirkendeR: S. Coon, Carleton,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1941
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz, 1 Kte
• Other title: Frontmatter --; INTRODUCTORY NOTE --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674183049; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674183049
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: George Way Harley.