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  3. Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone
    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    April 2012
    October 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511756566
    9781108020879
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511756566
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.39kg, 304 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Historical Geography, History, History of Medicine, African History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Historical Geography, History, History of Medicine, African History
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    Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    Sierra Leone in West Africa is the subject of this 1803 work by English physician Thomas Winterbottom (1766–1859). In the 1790s he spent four years there working for the Sierra Leone Company (established by abolitionists to resettle ex-slaves), and combating diseases such as malaria and scurvy. He displays none of the pejorative views of Africa or its inhabitants that some of his contemporaries expressed, but has a very positive opinion of the country. Winterbottom describes the women as beautiful and graceful, and he dismisses racial differentiations based on skin colour as being absurd. In Volume 2 Winterbottom focuses on African medicine and common diseases found in Sierra Leone. He pays particular attention to cases of abortions and miscarriages, and to malnourished children. The author does not refrain from addressing circumcision and sexually transmitted diseases, and is intrigued by the role of magic in the native medical tradition.

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