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Doctors of Nigeria
Explores an experimental project in Nigeria which allows Western physicians to work hand-in-hand with traditional healers. Describes the new knowledge that these doctors are receiving about herbal medicines and bone-setting techniques. Also shows that traditional healers are learning about Westerns medicines which are used to cure such diseases as diphteria and polio.
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- "Explores an experimental project in Nigeria which allows Western physicians to work hand-in-hand with traditional healers. Describes the new knowledge that these doctors are receiving about herbal medicines and bone-setting techniques. Also shows that traditional healers are learning about Westerns medicines which are used to cure such diseases as diphteria and polio."@en
- "Demonstrates the interrelationship of traditional herbal medicine and orthodox Western medicine in Nigeria and shows how their mutual cooperation results in health benefits that answer Nigeria's needs. Describes an experiment in Nigeria which allows Western physicians to work hand-in-hand with traditional healers. The West is learning about treating ailments with herbs and setting bones without the use of anesthesia or plaster casts. The traditional healers, on the other hand, are learning that diseases like diptheria and polio can be cured."@en
- "Demonstrates the interrelation of traditional herbal medicine and orthodox Western medicine in Nigeria and shows how their mutual cooperation results in health benefits that answer Nigeria's needs."@en