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THE WAYAO OF NYASALAND
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Mbumu: asthma.
Chiukula (ku-ukula — to scrape out): diarrhoea, dysentery.
Chipango (mbango = warthog): swelling at angles of jaws, mumps.
Liundika: nasal or bronchial catarrh.
Masoka: insanity; mangwengwe, delirium of fever (Hetherwick translates as periodic
madness).
Mbulu: ascites.
Litolomiso: goitre {lidotilo: pomum adami).
Naluwaula: leucoderma of hands and feet.
Chisungupute: a pustule.
Chisumbukute: a boil.
Chikanga (nganga = the spotted guinea-fowl): ring-worm of face.
Limasa: any mark on the skin, e.g. birthmark, pigmented spot, ringworm, scar.
a wart.
Ndundi: a burn of the skin.
LfpizZwa: a keloid scar (Hetherwick gives “ boil ”).
Lonya: a rash after shaving.
Lituku: a blister.
Chipuluwa: a wheal after a blow or an insect bite.
Chiiya: oedema of a limb.
Chipupu: whitlow.
Lipute: an abscess; uwou, pus.
Liimbapa: an abscess; (ku-umba: to swell).
Liwanga: a sore or ulcer.
Mkwangwasya: a chronic ulcer.
LmizcAiVa (ku-syuka — to come to life again): an ulcer which heals and then breaks
out again.
Lum&ac/rig'd: secondary enlarged glands in groin or elsewhere from a sore on the foot,
etc.
Ndesi: Any freely movable lump under the skin, e.g. sebaceous cyst, patella, ganglion,
etc.
Chilumi (ku-luma — to bite): rheumatism.
Upere: itch, scabies.
Honda mkamwa: thrush.
Luwoga: diarrhoea in infants with green stools.
Lukweso: passage of blood in urine; Urinary Bilharziasis.
Ng’ala: ulcer or leucoma of cornea.
Ching’ang’a: rabies in dogs.
Lisichini: round-worm of man.
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Mbumu: asthma.
Chiukula (ku-ukula — to scrape out): diarrhoea, dysentery.
Chipango (mbango = warthog): swelling at angles of jaws, mumps.
Liundika: nasal or bronchial catarrh.
Masoka: insanity; mangwengwe, delirium of fever (Hetherwick translates as periodic
madness).
Mbulu: ascites.
Litolomiso: goitre {lidotilo: pomum adami).
Naluwaula: leucoderma of hands and feet.
Chisungupute: a pustule.
Chisumbukute: a boil.
Chikanga (nganga = the spotted guinea-fowl): ring-worm of face.
Limasa: any mark on the skin, e.g. birthmark, pigmented spot, ringworm, scar.
a wart.
Ndundi: a burn of the skin.
LfpizZwa: a keloid scar (Hetherwick gives “ boil ”).
Lonya: a rash after shaving.
Lituku: a blister.
Chipuluwa: a wheal after a blow or an insect bite.
Chiiya: oedema of a limb.
Chipupu: whitlow.
Lipute: an abscess; uwou, pus.
Liimbapa: an abscess; (ku-umba: to swell).
Liwanga: a sore or ulcer.
Mkwangwasya: a chronic ulcer.
LmizcAiVa (ku-syuka — to come to life again): an ulcer which heals and then breaks
out again.
Lum&ac/rig'd: secondary enlarged glands in groin or elsewhere from a sore on the foot,
etc.
Ndesi: Any freely movable lump under the skin, e.g. sebaceous cyst, patella, ganglion,
etc.
Chilumi (ku-luma — to bite): rheumatism.
Upere: itch, scabies.
Honda mkamwa: thrush.
Luwoga: diarrhoea in infants with green stools.
Lukweso: passage of blood in urine; Urinary Bilharziasis.
Ng’ala: ulcer or leucoma of cornea.
Ching’ang’a: rabies in dogs.
Lisichini: round-worm of man.