Where there is no doctor: a village health care handbook for Africa./ David Warner; with carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell and Adrew Pearson.

By: Werner DavidMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London: Macmillan Education ltd, 1993Edition: Revised edDescription: [30] p., w33, 442 p. : ill. 25cmISBN: 9780333516522; 0333516524Subject(s): MedicineLOC classification: RC81.W49
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Contents Introduction to the English ed. -- Words to the village health worker -- 1. Home cures and popular beliefs -- 2. Sicknesses that are often confused -- 3. How to examine a sick person -- 4. How to take care of a sick person -- 5. Healing without medicines -- 6. Right and wrong use of modern medicines -- 7. Antibiotics: what they are and how to use them -- 8. How to measure and give medicine -- 9. Instructions and precautions for injections -- 10. First aid -- 11. Nutrition: what to eat to be healthy -- 12. Prevention: how to avoid many sicknesses -- 13. Some very common sicknesses -- 14. Serious illnesses that need special medical attention -- 15. Skin problems -- 16. The eyes -- 17. The teeth, gums, and mouth -- 18. The uninary system and the genitals -- 19. Information for mothers and midwives -- 20. Family planning-having the number of children you want -- 21. Health and sicknesses of children -- 22. Health and sicknesses of elder people -- 23. The medicine kit. Note Includes index.

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