Intersex among Africans in Rhodesia.

Intersex among Africans in Rhodesia.

According to a Greek myth, preserved for us in Ovid and recorded by Rose (1953), Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. A fountain nymph, Salmakis, who fell passionately in love with him, entreated the gods that she might be forever united with him, and her prayer was answered by the combination of lover and loved into a single being a hermaphrodite. By common usage the term hermap...

Tropical enteropathy in Rhodesia.

Tropical enteropathy, which may be related to tropical sprue, has been described in many developing countries including parts of Africa. The jejunal changes of enteropathy are seen in Rhodesians of all social and racial categories. Xylose excretion, however, is related to socioeconomic status, but not race. Upper socioeconomic Africans and Europeans excrete significantly more xylose than lower ...

Professionalism is key in providing services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex South Africans.

I recently interviewed a young gay man who was hospitalised after he fractured both his arms while fleeing a group of men who threatened to beat him up for being gay. The nurse in the emergency ward to which he was admitted abruptly changed her caring attitude towards him when he explained why he was running away from his attackers. She asserted that he deserved the attack, berated him for his ...

Rhodesia : Myths and Facts

Myocardial infarction in Southern Rhodesia.

Myocardial infarction in Southern Rhodesia affects almost exclusively people of European descent, and to a much lesser extent the small Asian and Coloured (predominantly Eurafrican) communities. Thus out of a total of 608 carefully studied cases of cardiac disease admitted during three years to the Mpilo Hospital (for Africans) in Bulawayo, there was not a single unequivocal case of myocardial ...