Medicines taken by the ill

Medicines taken by the ill

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

<i>Different Bushman Medicines; where found; and their uses. Only the names of these medicines are given in Bushman, and the remarks respecting them in English, after ≠kásin (L IV.-1. 3425-3440). These specimens were found in the hut of a Bushman sorcerer, and were kindly furnished for identification by Mr. J Gibb. //kábbo's names for the same specimens, with his remarks (in English only), are in a separate paper of 7 folio pages, to which ≠kásin's notes have been also briefly added, in red ink. </i>A series of numbered entries describing the making of preparations from, as well as the use and collection of, various plants and insects for the treatment of a variety of ailments by the |xam.

1) Insert pasted inside the front cover of Book IV-1: a note to ask the informants whether 'Hottentots' (from ≠kasin) do agricultural work and use a digging stick or whether (from ||kabbo) the |xam may hunt on each other's land; also an insert dictated by ||kabbo on the collecting of a grub by 'Grass Bushmen', which is then made into something called |<i>kai ka !gaoken</i>, probably a poison or medicine to be used with caution, 2) See also the insert pasted inside the back cover of Book IV concerning various medicinal plants - their names, their uses and where they are found, 3) Date on p.3439: 4 November, 4) p.3437v: possibly the name of a river or stream near ≠kasin's place (<i>!kuirri</i>) where a certain plant grows, 5) This story is found in Book IV-1

story

3 - 4 November 1873

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

Plants and animals

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3425-3440