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TitlePaper, regarding the 'Hottentots' [sic] of the Cape of Good Hope [South Africa] by Ten Rhyne
Date1692
DescriptionThe 'Hottentots' (in Afrikaan 'Hotnot') [Khoi, Khoekhoe, formerly Khoikhoi] used to dip the tips of the their arrows in vipers' poison; they would suck out the poison from those injured by these arrows; their treatment of gout was to heat the afflicted area by placing near a fire where the fat would 'sweat out'.

Subject: Ethnology

Read to the Royal Society on 20 April 1692
LanguageLatin
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialJBO/9/82
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