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Dallied Long. The first official act was lunch with Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. The conversation: almost solely Swiss Kriss, a herbal laxative that Louis discovered from reading Gayelord (yoghurt and molasses) Hauser, and recommended insistently to the Prime Minister and all his Cabinet. He dallied so long over his Benedictine and brandy that he was late for his afternoon concert...
...seriousness of their calling, they voted ?10,000 to set up a medical school in Johannesburg-to help "weed out the quacks and illiterates from among the medicine men," as Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...
Relying on his gift for guidance, Schaas-berg prescribed simple remedies, such as an herbal tea from the local chemist's, or what he calls "harmless drops." Even the Latin names for the prescriptions "just came" to him, he claimed. If the patient could not get to Maastricht, but sent a letter with a photograph or a ring enclosed, Schaasberg was willing to treat him by mail...
...Guatemala, the women of all classes know an ancient secret learned from the Indians: an herbal tea made from ixbut (rhymes with fish-boot) increases the flow of mother's milk...
Last week there was a run on herb stores for a smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...