In 1879, a British/Scottish medical student named Robert Felkin watched an African healer in Uganda perform a caesarean section.
Clean incision. Banana wine as anaesthetic and antiseptic. Bleeding cauterised with hot iron. Wound closed with iron pins and herbal root paste.
Mother recovered fully. Baby survived.
Felkin noted in his journal that the technique was SO REFINED, it was clearly standard practice, performed routinely long before any European arrived.
At that same moment, hospitals in London and Edinburgh were still debating whether caesarean sections could ever be justified on a living woman.
European surgeons were operating in street clothes, rarely washing their hands, and losing most patients to post-operative infection.
The Africans had already solved anaesthesia, anti sepsis, haemostasis, and wound care.
Felkin went home and presented his findings to the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society in 1884.
The knife used in that surgery still exists.
It is now housed in the Science Museum in London.
A silent artifact of a surgical tradition they called primitive.
They didn't discover our medicine.
They witnessed it, wrote it down and forgot to mention where it came from.
@GenesisB388@DailyLoud Mathew 28:19-20
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
@Globalstats11 It's really crazy seeing this list and they said Africa will be the ones with more death un-imaginable.
I mean Sheeeeeeeeeet....looking back when Tanzania had a stadium full of people in the middle of the Monster Covid
One is going to tell you a relatable story like story of a nervous teenager and the first time he had sex, loosing his virginity or about a man who lived a troubled street life, died young, and left a message for his daughter so she would understand who he was, the struggles he faced, and the better future he hoped for her.
While the other one will tell you a story of a wealthy man who refuses to give a dollar to a homeless stranger, only to later realize the man was God testing his humility and compassion. Or the story of how his father once served a robber who later became his label boss, showing how one small act of kindness prevented a robbery that could have erased his entire existence.
Boths are amazing story telling rappers. Cole just edges it for me because of his relatability and simplicity.
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