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Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro
In 1879, during a missionary expedition in the actual Uganda, the British medical student Robert Felkin witnessed a cesarean delivery surgery under general anaesthesia performed by Bunyoro´s doctors. On this occasion he saw how Bunyoro´s medicine was well elaborate in comparison with other sub-Sahar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34887994 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.40.120.32092 |
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description | In 1879, during a missionary expedition in the actual Uganda, the British medical student Robert Felkin witnessed a cesarean delivery surgery under general anaesthesia performed by Bunyoro´s doctors. On this occasion he saw how Bunyoro´s medicine was well elaborate in comparison with other sub-Saharan African cultures but also with occidental medicine. Through his report, Felkin brought to light the high scientific medical level of the Bunyoro´s doctors far away from the prejudice of a traditional African medicine surrounded by superstition and witchcraft. |
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spelling | pubmed-86271442021-12-08 Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro Diop, Sylvain Pan Afr Med J Commentary In 1879, during a missionary expedition in the actual Uganda, the British medical student Robert Felkin witnessed a cesarean delivery surgery under general anaesthesia performed by Bunyoro´s doctors. On this occasion he saw how Bunyoro´s medicine was well elaborate in comparison with other sub-Saharan African cultures but also with occidental medicine. Through his report, Felkin brought to light the high scientific medical level of the Bunyoro´s doctors far away from the prejudice of a traditional African medicine surrounded by superstition and witchcraft. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8627144/ /pubmed/34887994 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.40.120.32092 Text en Copyright: Sylvain Diop et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Diop, Sylvain Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro |
title | Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro |
title_full | Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro |
title_fullStr | Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro |
title_full_unstemmed | Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro |
title_short | Overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of Bunyoro |
title_sort | overview of surgical and anesthesia practice in sub-saharan africa during the 19(th) century: the example of the people of bunyoro |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34887994 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.40.120.32092 |
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