a minute agoTerrible practices of Albanians in cases of various diseases described by Edith Durham
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Edith Durahm in her book For the Tribes, the Laws and Customs of the Balkans on page 334, says: The Austrian doctor told me that he had once been summoned to a dying man. And the booth was full of men: and the heat was hard, and the evil smell was not described. Ten days ago they had [...]
Edith Durahm in her book For the Tribes, the Laws and Customs of the Balkans on page 334, says:
The Austrian doctor told me that he had once been summoned to a dying man. And the booth was full of men: and the heat was hard, and the evil smell was not described. Ten days earlier, they slaughtered a black cat and placed it in the womb where it was still kept.
Intestine typhoid fever: This is like an epidemic throughout the Balkans. In Albania they believed in it in a terrible drug.
The dog's poop, spread on a stone and dried in the sun, was crushed and given to the person with water. In vain, I tried to stop them from giving this to one, but the dosage was already prepared by the local priest who had great faith in it. This disgusting drug was included in Vienna's official Pharmacapeia until 1795 for use in dysentery and flural pain.
Nevertheless, people in Albania still lived who had tried this treatment. Was the dog's fertilizer some bowel bacillus that fought the bowel typhus?
It pukes: This used human waste mixed with water. Mixed with brandy, this was given to the common drunkards with the thought of healing. But that worked.
The black - eyed snake meat (Celdopus pallasi), a popular creature near Shkodra, was considered to be very good for the tuberculosisic.
The meat of the country's common turtle was considered of great value to all who were recovering from the disease. When I left the hospital, Mark had prepared a delicious meal bag. I ate it. Thank God! Good old man called. You ate a turtle, so you'll soon grow stronger and be fine. He took the shell of the big turtle with its meat to feast on me.
So widespread are the turtles that an Albanian proverb says: ) ) No mountain without wolf, no turtle field. )
Disease.
Concerns of intestines of any kind are widespread in the Balkans due to poor food, and, in some provinces, the appetite for sour things. Strap worms, etc. They're so popular. For this, the brickwork is prepared. /Trung & InforCulture.info/
