Some Notes On The Bibliography Of The Philippines - 9781544666839

Two works, sole representatives of their kind, are named by Retana as of singular value to the physician not only, but to ethnologist and scholar especially, -one the Embriologia Sagrada (Manila, 1856), by the Recoleto missionary Gregorio Sanz, written in aid of his fellow caretakers of souls, whose services in behalf of suffering humanity in out-of-the-way districts were often called upon by the natives, whose practice of the curing art, based on their own traditional formulas, especially in cases of child-bearing, was, despite the efforts of the missionary to uproot their unnatural and utterly heathen disregard for human life, attended too often with destruction of progeny and mother

• | Author: Thomas Cooke Middleton
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 26, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 34 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1544666837
• | ISBN-13: 9781544666839