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The Philippine Joui'nal of Science 



19X7 



Table II. — Diseases and conditions recognized by the Maguindanaos — Cont'd. 



Rayur 



Pthisis 



Saguiap 



Erysipelas. Herpes zoster 



Sakit 



Pain or disease located anywhere 



Sakit a mama 



Disease of man, gonorrhoea 



Salabi 



Chilblains 



Salamat-iblis 



Pain or disease due to the devil 



Salilau 



Stomatitis, coated tongue 



Sedsed 



Circinate eruption of yaws or any 





serpiginous eruption or sore 



Taguitic 



Difficulty in urination 



Takendi 



Dysentery. This term is applied 





when there is an abundance of 





mucus mixed with blood 



Tebpig 



Lepra. Any chronic ugly ulcer 



Tumiti sa nana 



Gonorrhoea 



Uasir 



Oxyuris vermicularis infection 



Ugam 



Pharyngitis and laryngitis 



Ulag 



Deep pain in plantar surface of foot, 





supposed to be transmitted to leg. 





Rheumatism of foot 



Ulapig 



Cold feeling, but not actual ague, 





specially in old people, associated 





usually with paiigater 



Uled 



Worms, intestinal 



Umau 



Dumbness 



Umes 



Asthma 



Urac a ating 



Prickly heat 



CAUSATION OF DISEASE 



The Maguindanaos attribute diseases to a variety of causes, 

 such as poison, hunger, wind, sun, unfulfilled customs, promises 

 or oaths, and animalcules, but the most frequent causes, however, 

 are malignant spirits. 



During the recent cholera epidemic in Cotabato Province 

 (1915) people quarantined themselves against all strangers, and 

 several persons were detained, searched, and threatened bodily 

 harm because they were suspected of carrying poison which 

 caused the cholera. In the disease called pasma (fever) the 

 symptoms differ according to the causative factor: from "hun- 

 ger," cold all over the body first and fever afterward ; from the 

 "wind," fever inside and cold outside of the body; from the 

 "sun," fever outside and cold inside; from "getting wet," the 

 same symptoms as from wind. Pasma is more liable to follow 

 if a person gets wet or takes a bath while the sun is at its zenith. 

 They have no conception of microbes, but they believe some 

 minute worms, kanam, to be the cause of scaly skin diseases and 



