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Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone - To which is Added, an Account of the Present State of Medicine among Them (Paperback)
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Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone - To which is Added, an Account of the Present State of Medicine among Them (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies, Volume 2
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Sierra Leone in West Africa is the subject of this 1803 work by
English physician Thomas Winterbottom (1766 1859). In the 1790s he
spent four years there working for the Sierra Leone Company
(established by abolitionists to resettle ex-slaves), and combating
diseases such as malaria and scurvy. He displays none of the
pejorative views of Africa or its inhabitants that some of his
contemporaries expressed, but has a very positive opinion of the
country. Winterbottom describes the women as beautiful and
graceful, and he dismisses racial differentiations based on skin
colour as being absurd. In Volume 2 Winterbottom focuses on African
medicine and common diseases found in Sierra Leone. He pays
particular attention to cases of abortions and miscarriages, and to
malnourished children. The author does not refrain from addressing
circumcision and sexually transmitted diseases, and is intrigued by
the role of magic in the native medical tradition.
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