Where There Is No Doctor - Boekje Pienter

ContentsA list of what is discussed in each chapterINTRODUCTIONNOTE ABOUT THIS NEW EDITIONWORDS TO THE VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER (Brown Pages). . . . . . . . . . . . . .w1Health Needs and Human Needs w2A Balance Between Prevention andMany Thing Relate to Health Care w7Treatment w17Take a Good Look at Your Community w8Sensible and Limited Use of Medicines w18Using Local Resources to Meet Needs w12 Finding Out What Progress Has BeenDeciding What to Do and Where toMade w20Begin w13Teaching and Learning Together w21Trying a New Idea w15Tools for Teaching w22A Balance Between People and Land w16 Making the Best Use of This Book w28Chapter 1HOME CURES AND POPULAR BELIEFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Home Cures That Help 1Ways to Tell Whether a Home RemedyBeliefs That Can Make People Well 2 Works or Not 10Beliefs That Can Make People Sick 4 Medicinal Plants 12Witchcraft—Black Magic—and the Evil Eye 5 Homemade Casts—for Broken Bones 14Questions and Answers 6 Enemas, Laxatives, and Purges 15Sunken Fontanel or Soft Spot 9Chapter 2SICKNESSES THAT ARE OFTEN CONFUSED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17What Causes Sickness? 17 Example of Local Names for Sicknesses 22Different Kinds of Sicknesses and TheirMisunderstanding Due to Confusion ofCauses 18 Names 25Non-infectious Diseases 18Confusion between Different illnesses ThatInfectious Diseases 19 Cause Fever 26Sicknesses That Are Hard to Tell Apart 20Chapter 3HOW TO EXAMINE A SICK PERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Questions 29 Eyes 33General Condition of Health 30 Ears 34Temperature 30 Skin 34How to Use a Thermometer 31 The Belly (Abdomen) 35Breathing (Respiration) 32 Muscles and Nerves 37Pulse (Heartbeat) 32