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Title:Hehe medicine
Author:Redmayne, Alison
Year:1969
Periodical:Tanzania Notes and Records
Volume:70
Pages:29-40
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:healers
Hehe
Abstract:The resistance of the Hehe against German rule in German East Africa led to the establishment of a German military garrison at Iringa in Uhehe in 1896. Among the military doctors stationed there were at least five who wrote about the Hehe: Arning, Dempwolff, Fülleborn, Stierling and Weck. The military doctors have contributed more to the early ethnography of this area than any other single group of people-travellers, other military personnel or missionaries. Probably some of these doctors also wrote reports on medical topics in medical journals, but Weck's article about the medical knowledge of the Hehe appears to be the only article about the Hehe written on a specifically medical topic and published in a general periodical ('Der Wahehe Arzt und seine Wissenschaft', in Deutsches Kolonialblatt, 1908, p. 1048-1051). This article is presented here in translation. Though the original is written in an awkward, pedantic German style, the article is important. Weck respected his Hehe colleagues sufficiently to consider that their techniques were worth recording. The article presents information on the way Hehe prepare and use traditional medicines today. Notes; Dr. Weck's list of Hehe diseases; Further notes on the Kihehe plant names mentioned by Dr. Weck; Bibl.
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