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Traditional Badu medicine in Kuwait has not had very much attention paid to it, but from experience so far gathered it does not appear to play a significant part in the present changing culture. Dickson [1] has described the dozen or so indigenous practices of which he had experience some years ago but it is doubtful if any of these are pursued with any enthusiasm today, now that the benefits of Western medicine are known the length and breadth of this small country. Yet Zahra Freeth [2], Dickson’s daughter, remarked on the fatalism of the Badu towards sickness and death and the reluctance to seek modern medical help only a bare twenty years ago. This contrasts with current demands which create such a heavy strain upon the existing services.
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Ffrench, G.E., Hill, A.G. (1971). Treatment Services. In: Kuwait. Medizinische Länderkunde / Geomedical Monograph Series, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65172-4_10
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