Metta hellam,
Bien avant l'avenement de la medecine moderne. les chawis ont developpe des techniques medicales pour ameliorer leur qualite de vie ou seulement les aider a survivre dans un environnement rendu difficile par de differentes circonstances. Certaines de ces techniques ont ete documentees par ecrits et photos par le britannique : Melville William Hilton- Simpson(1881-1938).
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Livre illustre:
Melville William Hilton-Simpson (1881-1938): papers on North Africa, incl medicine and medical remedies among the Berbers of the Aures, 1906-1920s; paper on Berber and Arab surgery for the Royal Society of Medicine, Oct 1919; Arab and Shawia medical notes, 1920s MSS 69-70, MS 74
Collection photographique:
1910 Melville William Hilton-Simpson: medicine and surgery in Algeria, include Shawia doctors using herbal medicines, bleeding patient, treating wounds in the street and setting broken bones with a variety of splints; drug-sellers; patients treated by Shawia doctors, with dressed wounds and legs in splints, scars resulting from medical treatment include removal of bones from leg and arm etc.
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