Prehistory in Northern Rhodesia

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 ...

Rhodesia : Myths and Facts

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...

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 ...

Chagas disease in prehistory.

The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among prehistoric people when they started domesticating animals, changing to sedentary habits, and adopting agriculture. These changes in their way of life happened nearly 6,000 years ago. However, paleoparasitological data based on molecular tools showed that Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas d...