When we entered the village we found a Malaria victim who was comatose. The witch doctors of the village met in the late afternoon and inhaled a hallucinogenic drug made from bark. They then began chanting and calling the god figures of the forest. …
Shaman, or witch doctors, in a Yanomamon Indian Village raise up a comatose Malaria victim to their gods in a request for the release of evil spirits from his body.
First photograph shows hockey players and umpires scrambling on the ice. Second photograph shows the scattered gloves and hockey sticks lying on the ice.
Story on the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medicine. Based at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, the Institute is unique in having a state-wide network of radio communications and inter-hospital collaboration. Teams of doctors and…