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: To Wh

ISBN-13: 9780714618593 / Angielski / Twarda / 1969 / 708 str.

Thomas Winterbottom;Winterbottom

Opis

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.

O autorze

Thomas Winterbottom