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A field ethnographer to visit West Africa before the second half of
the 19th century, the author of this work presents an informative
description of the surrounding tribes together with a collection of
Temne, Bulom and Susu vocabularies. The second volume represents a
systematic account of African medicine, diseases, remedies and
therapeutic plants. The volumes were first published in 1803.
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 1 he draws a many-faceted picture
of the climate, history and traditions of Sierra Leone, describing
the limited diet of the inhabitants (consisting mainly of rice and
palm oil), and seeking to give scientific answers to such questions
as why the hair of the inhabitants is mostly of a 'woolly' type.
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.
Title: An 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.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
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Along with written records, the collection features transcribed
oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and
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Winterbottom, Thomas; 1803. 2 vol.; 8 . 979.h.25,26.
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