Lacuna (Part one)
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Lacuna (Part one)
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Biological Sciences
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African Studies
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Description
"It is interesting to note that the botanical origins of most of these medicines were from outside of Africa, especially if one considers the long history of the Cape as a point on the trade routes where ill sailors regularly disembarked and drew on the knowledge of the Khoekhoe traditional healers for treatment and herbal cures (Laidler & Gelfand 1971: 44). The Cape flora offered a plenitude of medicinal resources and these healers (who were skilled in botany, surgery and medicine) used them in a variety of healing practices . The exclusion of local botanical remedies in the BWC No. 254 medicine chest can be attributed to many factors" (Liebenberg 2021: 67).
Creator
Nina Liebenberg
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Date Created
2021
Source
Liebenberg, N. 2021. The virus and the vaccine: curatorship and the disciplinary outsider. University of Cape Town. Doctoral dissertation.
Resonances
heart wood
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absence
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Cecil John Rhodes
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Hiddingh campus
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invasive
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fig tree
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indigenous
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Edmund February
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European
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medicine chest
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disease
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healing
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exclusion
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Khoekhoe
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traditional
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resources
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Cape Town
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Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
