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SoMp; Tribal Customs in their Relation to the Medicine and ^Morals ok the 

 Nyam-nyam and Gour Peoples inhabiting the Baur-El-Ghazal. By Cai-tain 

 R. G. Anderson 23!) 



Introduction — Tribal Distribution — Nyam-nyam People — Gour People — Character and Type — 

 Civilisation and Mohammedanism — Morality — Punishment — Mutilation — Execution : By 

 Throttling, By the Knife, By the Spear, By Poison, By Fire — Ordeals — Flogging — Theory 

 of Disease — Doctors and their Cures : Salt Cure, Sucking Cure, Extraction of Foreign 

 Bodies, Tying Cure, Scarring, Cupping, Heat Cure, Spitting, Whistling Cure — Oracular 

 Rites : Benga Rite, Devil-dancing, Divination, Divining Board, Other Means of Divination 

 — Evil Spirits : Sahar or Zarr, Blood-brotherhood, Casting out Devils, Sacrifices — Charms : 

 ]Medico-Magical Charms, Attractive Charms, Whistle Charms, "Gun iledicine," ]SIourning 

 Charms, Lightning Charms — ^laladies : Fever, Chest Complaints, Eye Diseases, Chigger, 

 Guinea-Worm, Snake Bites and Scorpion Stings, Stomach Complaints, Venereal Disease, 

 Headache, Sun-stroke, Mental Disease, Skin Disease, Leprosy, Deformities, Elephantiasis — 

 Drugs — Arrow Poisons — Surgery : Circumcision, Tribal Cosmetic Operations — Extraction 

 and Mutilation of Teeth — Tribal Markings (Scar Tattooing) : Spurious Face Markings, 

 Lip Perforation, Nose and Ear Perforation — Minor Surgery : Wounds and Ulcers, Fractures, 

 Foreign Bodies, Surgical Instruments and Appliances — Personal Hygiene — Cannibalism — 

 Birth — Death — Conclusion. 

 Some Municipal Engineering Problems in the Tropics. By W. H. ^[cLean and 



G. E. Hunt 279 



Introduction — Meteorological Conditions. 



Town Planning — Old Khartoum — New Khartoum — Future Development. 



Streets and Open Spaces — Streets — Rain Water Drainage — Tramways — C)pen Spaces — Trees. 



Buildings — Tj^pes of Houses. 



Water-supply — Distribution — Wells — Irrigation. 



Sanitation — Waste Water Disposal : Irrigation, Percolation Pits, Waste Water Pits — Latrines 

 and LTrinals — Conservancy. 



Town Building Regulations — Contents — Preliminary : Title, Scope, Interpretation, Classifica- 

 tion of Land — General Regulations — Si)ecial Regulations — Building Petition — Drawings 

 Lodged with Municipal Authority — Contravention of Regulations — IHlapidated or 

 Neglected Buildings. 

 Index 313 



CONTENTS OF THE SECOND EEVIEW 



OF RECENT ADVANCES IN TROPICAL MEDICINE, ETC. 



VOLUME SUPPLEMENTARY TO FOURTH REPORT 



Air — Ankylostomiasis — Anthrax — Bacteriology — Beri-beri — Beverages — Blackwater Fever — 

 Blood — Bubo — Calabar Swellings — Cancer — Cerebro-Spinal Fever — Chicken-pox — Chigger — 

 Cholera — Climate — C!r>thing — Dengue — Diarrhcea — Diphtheria — Disinfection — Dropsy — 

 Dust — Dysentery — Elephantiasis — Enteric Fever — Faeces — Fevers — FOariasis — FOters — 

 Flies — Food — Food Poisoning — Goundou — Guinea- Worm — Htematozoa — Heat Stroke — 

 Hydatid — Hydroi)hobia — Influenza — Insects — Leishmaniosis — Leprosy — Liver Abscess — 

 Malaria — Malta Fever — Measles — MUk — Mosquitoes — Jlycetoma — Myiasis — Ophthalmia — 

 Oriental Sore — Parasites — Paratyphoid Fever — Pellagra — Phlebotomus Fever — Piroplasmosis 

 — Plague — Pneumonia — Preservatives — Protozoa — Refuse Disposal — Schistosomiasis — 

 Scorpion Sting — Scurvy — Sewage — Skin Diseases — Sleeping Sickness — Small-pox — Snake- 

 bite — Spirochajtosis — Sprue — Staining — Syphilis — Technique — Tetanus — Ticks — Tropical 

 ilediciue — Trypanosomiasis — Tsetse Flies — Tuberculosis — Typhus Fever — Vaccination — 

 Vermin — Verruga — Veterinary Diseases — Water — Whooping Cough — Yaws — Yellow Fever. 



