Illness in Primitive Culture
In primitve culture illness was perceived as a curse, a divine punishment for inadvertently violating a moral code and affliction by an evil spirit. Such believes had survived up to this date in Afrika. There was a common consensus about the care of patients afflicted by evils spirits in different regions of the world. Healers ( witchdoctors, shamans ) took a medical history streamlined to the nature of moral violations. They could consult the Gods sometimes while in trance to discover which spirit was casting the spell. If the patient's soul were lost, had it wondered to some remote areas or did it inhabit someone else. Treatment could be complicated, involving ceremonies, chants, dances, mystical signs, charms and fetishes. The point of the healing rites was to drive put evil spirit, call back a lost spirit and reward the offended god.
+ In this image the evil spirits are under the water reppresented by scary appearing human faces. In Afrika, there are people still influenced by such credence and indeed they keep practicing this primitive culture.
DR Mohamed Buwe Osman, MD
Physician and Artist
In primitve culture illness was perceived as a curse, a divine punishment for inadvertently violating a moral code and affliction by an evil spirit. Such believes had survived up to this date in Afrika. There was a common consensus about the care of patients afflicted by evils spirits in different regions of the world. Healers ( witchdoctors, shamans ) took a medical history streamlined to the nature of moral violations. They could consult the Gods sometimes while in trance to discover which spirit was casting the spell. If the patient's soul were lost, had it wondered to some remote areas or did it inhabit someone else. Treatment could be complicated, involving ceremonies, chants, dances, mystical signs, charms and fetishes. The point of the healing rites was to drive put evil spirit, call back a lost spirit and reward the offended god.
+ In this image the evil spirits are under the water reppresented by scary appearing human faces. In Afrika, there are people still influenced by such credence and indeed they keep practicing this primitive culture.
DR Mohamed Buwe Osman, MD
Physician and Artist
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