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Is 'traditional medicine' mumbo-jumbo, as I was given to understand as a doctor's son in then British-run Uganda? Any link the witch-doctors had with modern times was the constant pinching of syringes from Mulago Hospital. They plunged them into their customers with unsterilised needles, I remember overhearing. Victims often ended up being treated in Mulago, occassionally with cattle urine in t...

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journey to Jabalpur flight to Delhi was delightful. Thai Airlines do not 9uarantee to transport you to Heaven, but their airhostesses do their best. Nothing, in my experience, fuels fantasies of the middle-aged male better than the aPproach of a slim, curvaceous Siamese beauty in a hip-hugging sari, delicately proferring an orchid and a ^arm smile full of Eastern promise. I was still up in the ...

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of Israel. Transjordan lost the 'trans' when it gained the West Bank from former parts of Palestine. Once more confined to the further shores of the river, Jordanians live more in hope than expectation of regaining their lost territory. The Allenby Bridge faint echoes of the Raj has become a difficult frontier for anyone to cross, especially Palestinians; yet cross it they must if they wish to ...

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Registrar to be the first lecturer in Dermatology at University College, Ibadan joined the love of West Africa with my speciality and created lasting links with tropical dermatology, tropical diseases and leprosy. A visiting professorship at Korle Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana, kept the process going and later work at Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, some 250 miles inland in Sierra Leone, made th...

From Our Foreign Correspondent