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Diseases in the Tropics: A Confrontation in an African Rural Practice

Recent claims that “diseases of Western civilization” are rare in rural African communities may not be justified. African peasants have a high pain threshold; many attend traditional healers rather than Western-trained doctors; and their language contains no words to express the descriptive terms used in Western medicine for the symptoms and clinical features of these diseases.