@article{oai:hama-med.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000012,
 author = {佐藤, 弘明},
 journal = {浜松医科大学紀要. 一般教育},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {application/pdf, Examining what health conditions the Baka hunter-gatherers, with limited access to modern medicine, have in the African rain forest environment and what diseases threaten their life, the author observed the scars after cut-and-rub treatment on twenty body parts of 60 Baka subjects, 23 adult males and 37 adult females, inhabiting a settlement in Soanke District of northwestern Congo from October 1990 to January 1991. The findings are as follows: 1. The highest observation rate of the treatment scars on temples (98.3 %) suggests that diseases with such symptoms as headache and fever are very common among them. 2. The second highest observation rate on each side of the abdomen below the ribs suggests that malaria or kwashiorkor was common in their childhood days. 3. It is probable that the fairly high observation rate (over 60 %) on subjects’ backs or waists comes from the hard physical labor of the Baka life-style. 4. It is considered that the observation rate of the treatment scars on upper and lower abdomens is unexpectedly low because the Baka treat gastrointestinal diseases with medicine or injections as well as with cut-and-rub treatment. 5. It is likely that women have a significantly higher observation rate on upper and lower abdomens than men because these are the main parts where the Baka women give cut-and rub treatment in order to encourage pregnancies, easy births, or abortions. 6. Wrists, the back of the hands, ankles, the middle of eyebrows, elbows and shoulders are parts where the Baka utilize cut-and rub treatment in order to enhance the success of hunting, fishing or their love life.},
 pages = {9--24},
 title = {病歴を物語るBaka ピグミーの治療痕},
 volume = {19},
 year = {2005}
}