The implications of witchcraft beliefs on medical practice are widespread among the Shona-speaking people — indeed, as they are tin any other part of Central Africa. Once a people accept a belief in the reality of witchcraft, ...

From time to time in African infants one meets a condition generally known to dermatologists as dermatitis gangrenosa infantum, in which a characteristic destruction of a large area of skin occurs. It may start with a small ...

Endomyocardial fibrosis was first described in Africans in 1946 by Bedford and Konstam, who recognised it in West African soldiers, and two years later Davies gave a fuller account of it from Uganda. Since then several ...

It is important to remember that a considerable number of medicinal herbs are being prescribed in Rhodesia by witchdoctors. Consequently, although the witchdoctor is generally a fine botanist, from time to time mistakes ...

The clinical and pathological features of North American Blastomycosis in the United States of America have been well documented by Abernathy (1959) and by Witorsch & Utz (1968) who showed that blastomycosis is a chronic ...

Coma is a common reason for a patient to be admitted to hospital. It has many causes and the physician attending a comatose patient must determine its etiology at an early stage so that the appropriate therapy can be ...

This study was undertaken with several objects in view.. First of all we wanted to know how frequently bilharziasis is likely to infest infants up to the age of two years in an endemic area. On first thoughts it would seem ...

Within recent years a number of papers have emanated from East, West, Central and South Africa, all reporting a form or forms of congestive heart failure, the etiology of which remains obscure. Interest in this subject ...