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Guide to the twelve files in the medicine and indigenous sciences section, covering pharmaceutical botany, clinical practice, bone-setting, psychiatry, obstetrics, epidemic management, metallurgy, numeracy, and contemporary regulation.

The Yoruba deity of smallpox, contagious epidemics, and the dry earth, whose historical priesthood managed public health before colonial suppression and Atlantic reinterpretation.

A comprehensive scholarly reference on Ọbalúayé, the Yoruba divinity of the earth, infectious disease, and physical healing, covering theological domains, liturgical poetry, colonial suppression, and transatlantic diaspora developments.

The historical development, functional boundaries, and colonial transformations of the babaláwo, oníṣègùn, adáhunṣe, and related Yoruba healing specialists.