Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.

  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hall of Primitive Medicine The frieze is decorated with masks used in connection with native medical treatment by witch-doctors and devil dancers in Africa, Ceylon, Tibet, New Guinea and the Islands of the Pacific. West Corner Specimens showing various pathological conditions ob- served among the human remains in a prehistoric Ethiopian cemetery now being excavated by Mr. Henry S. Wellcome at Gebel Moya, A. E. Sudan, Africa, showing evidences of:— Diseased condition of the teeth and of the alveolus (accompanied by radiographs of the specimens). Old fractures showing instances of mal-union. Various other conditions, such as new growths, atrophic and inflammatory affections, etc., etc. Specimens illustrating a new method specially devised for the preservation of archaeological anatomical remains. On the pillars and tables are fetish and other figures pertaining to the healing art among savage peoples. The Manuka of Whakatane. Maori talisman of Life and Death. The Manuka was regarded by the Maoris as the spiritual embodiment and personality of life and health.