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Notes on how to make food digestable to the sick, elderly and children. The student who wrote these notes, Moediadjeng, was apprently training to become a nurse.
Notes on fertility, pregnancy and child-birth used for lectures at Medical School which also contains information on how to deal with local shaman. For instance, the warning: "prevent the shaman from checking the inside of vaginas with their fingers" which reveals some of the tension between medi...