Where There Is No Doctor 2011
Contents
A list of what is discussed in each chapter
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ABOUT THIS NEW EDITION
WORDS TO THE VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER (Brown Pages). . . . . . . . . . . . . .w1
Health Needs and Human Needs w2
A Balance Between Prevention and
Many Thing Relate to Health Care w7 Treatment w17
Take a Good Look at Your Community w8
Sensible and Limited Use of Medicines w18
Using Local Resources to Meet Needs w12
Finding Out What Progress Has Been
Deciding What to Do and Where to Made w20
Begin w13
Teaching and Learning Together w21
Trying a New Idea w15
Tools for Teaching w22
A Balance Between People and Land w16
Making the Best Use of This Book w28
Chapter 1
HOME CURES AND POPULAR BELIEFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Home Cures That Help 1
Ways to Tell Whether a Home Remedy
Beliefs That Can Make People Well 2 Works or Not 10
Beliefs That Can Make People Sick 4
Medicinal Plants 12
Witchcraft—Black Magic—and the Evil Eye 5
Homemade Casts—for Broken Bones 14
Questions and Answers 6
Enemas, Laxatives, and Purges 15
Sunken Fontanel or Soft Spot 9
Chapter 2
SICKNESSES THAT ARE OFTEN CONFUSED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
What Causes Sickness? 17
Example of Local Names for Sicknesses 22
Different Kinds of Sicknesses and
Misunderstanding Due to Confusion
Their Causes 18 of Names 25
Non-infectious Diseases 18
Confusion between Different Illnesses
Infectious Diseases 19 That Cause Fever 26
Sicknesses That Are Hard to Tell Apart 20
Chapter 3
HOW TO EXAMINE A SICK PERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Questions 29
General Condition of Health 30
Temperature 30
How to Use a Thermometer 31
Breathing (Respiration) 32
Pulse (Heartbeat) 32
Eyes 33
Ears 34
Skin 34
The Belly (Abdomen) 35
Muscles and Nerves 37