For myself, now that my health, which since 1918 had been very uncertain, has been restored as the result of two operations, and that I have succeeded, by means of lectures and organ concerts, in discharging the debts which I had to incur during the war for the sake of my work, I venture to resolve to continue my activity among the suffering folk of whom I have written. The work, indeed, as I began it, has been ruined by the war. The friends from two nations who joined in supporting us, have been, alas! deeply divided by what has happened in the world, and of those who might have helped us farther, many have been reduced to poverty by the war. It will be very difficult to collect the necessary funds, which again must be far larger than before, for the expenses will be three times as heavy, however modestly I replan our undertaking.
Nevertheless, I have not lost courage. The misery I have seen gives me strength, and faith in my fellow-men supports my confidence in the future. I do hope that I shall find a sufficient number of people who, because they themselves have been saved from physical suffering, will respond to requests on behalf of those who are in similar need.... I do hope that among the doctors of the world there will soon be several besides myself who will be sent out, here or there in the world, by "the Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of Pain."
ST. NICHOLAS' CLERGY HOUSE,
STRASBOURG.
August, 1920.
INDEX
ADMINISTRATION, French colonial, [116], [118] African harbours, West, [20] Agriculture, [118] Alcohol, [6], [24], [25], [44], [49], [96], [114], [120], [124], [161] American Mission, [21] Anæmia, [6], [90], [148] Anæsthetics, [66] Analysis, blood, [84] Animals, treatment of, at Dakar, [17] Ant, traveller, [143] Antipyrin, [37] Apoplexy, [66] Appendicitis, [53] "Arrhenal," [90] Arsenic, [90] Arseno-benzol. See Raspberry disease.
Atombogunjo, [158] Atoxyl, [83], [85] Aucoumea hlaineana, [109] "Aurora," [150]
BACH, [3], [64], [149] Banana, [70], [97], [140] Barolea, [21] Beetle, Bostrichid, [100] Belgian-Congo Railway, [8] Biborate of sodium, [73] Blood analysis, [84] Boehme, Jacob. See "Aurora."
Boils, [69] Books, [148]; see also "Aurora."
Bostrichid beetle, [100] Brazzaville, [85] Bromide of potassium, [37], [47] Bruce, [81] Building, raft, [102]
CADIER, Mr., [72] Cameroons, [122] Cancer, [53] Cannibalism, [6], [69] Canoe journey, [40] Castellani, [81] Catholic Mission, sixteenth century, [6] Catholic Mission Station, [81] Catholic Missions, the, [166] Cattle, [5], [118] Cause of sleeping sickness, [79] Cayman, [72] Cereals, [5] Chaulmoogra oil, [89]; subcutaneous injection of, [89] Chills, [53] Chloral hydrate, [47] Christianity, [153]; natives and, [154] Christol, Mr., [26], [61] Cinnamon, [4] Civilisation and colonisation, antagonism of, [117] Civilisation, comparative, [127] Climate, [5], [40], [53] Cloth, [96] Cocoa, [4] Coffee, [4] Coillard, Mr., [145] Colonial administration, French, [116], [118] Colonisation and civilisation, antagonism of, [117] "Company of the Upper Ogowe," [120] Compulsory labour, [118] "Concessions," [119] Conditions of Europeans, [6] Conveyance of sleeping sickness, [83] Coralwood, [109] Crawcraw, [87]
DAKAR, [16] De Brazza, [7] Delord, Mr., [89] Dentistry, [55] Dermatol, [37] Difficulties of temporary hospital, [37] Digitalis, [45] Disease, heart, [45]; mental, [45] Dishonesty, native, [64], [102], [162] Drink. See alcohol.
Drinking habits, native, [44] Dropsy, [75] Dutton, [81] Dysentery, [36], [62], [90]
EATING sores, [88] Ebony, [102] Education, native, [122]; of missionaries, [164] Elephantiasis, [36] Elephants, [139], [141] Ellenberger, Mr., [26], [67] Emetin (Emetinum hydrochloricum), [91], [169] European imports, [5]; influence, [91] Europeans, conditions of, [6]; mortality among, [6];
relations between natives and, [130] Evangelical Mission, Paris, [2], [3] Exploration of River Ogowe, [7] Export of timber, [108] Extravagance, native, [77]
FANS, [6] Faure, Mr. Felix, [165] Faure, Mrs., [56], [58] Felling and transport of timber, [95] Fernando Vaz, [68] Fetishes, [50], [51] Finance, [3] Fish and Fishing, [49], [168] Food products, [98] Foodstuffs, [151] Ford, Mr., [159] Forest roads, [121], [122] Forest, the virgin, [23], [39] Fourier, [94] Framboesia, [87] French colonial administration, [116], [118]
GABOON, [4], [6] Galoas, [6] "Gambia fever," [82] Girls, native, [129] Glossina palpalis, [42] n., [83] Gout, [53] Grand Bassam, [20] Gratitude, native, [66]
HABITS, native drinking, [44] Hansen, [88] Harbours, West African, [20] Haug, Mr. (N'Gômô), [52], [109] Heart disease, [45] Hermann, Mr., [69] Hernia, [55], [64], [91] Hippopotami, [41], [43], [56], [57], [72] Hospital (temporary), difficulties of, [37]; routine of, [32], [33] Hospital, the, [31], [44], [59]; its scope, [78] Housekeeping, [62] Hunting, elephant, [141] Hydrogen peroxide, [73]
IMPORTS, European, [5] Industries, native, [124] Influence, European, [91]; of war, [167]; Portuguese, [70] Insects, [143] Insomnia, [54] Ipecacuanha, [90] Ironwood, [109] Isolation of leprosy, [88] Israelites, [127] Itch (scabies), [36]
JACOB BOEHME, [150] Jesuit plantations, [7] Jesus Christ, [93], [127], [155] Jorryguibert, [65] Joseph, [32], [45], [48], [65], [73], [76], [132], [136], [145]
KAST, Mr., [27], [31], [60] Kerosene, [114] Kiboko (sjambok), [67] Koch, [81] Konakri,17
LABOUR, compulsory, [118] Labour, native, [20], [31], [78], [95], [111] Labour problem. See Native labour.
Labour, women's, [63] Lambarene, [3], [5], [8], [26], [39], [169] Law, native, [73], [151] Laziness, native, [44], [112] Leboeuf, [81] Leopards, [71] Leprosy, [36], [68], [88] Libreville, [6], [21] Lopez, Cape, [4], [94] Lopez, Odoardo, [7] Lumbar hernia, [65]
MAHOGANY, [108] Malaria, [36], [56], [59], [89] Manioc, [70], [97] Martin, [81] Medical science, sleeping sickness and, [82] Medicine men, [35], [48] Medicine, native, [35]; tropical, [16] Medicines, prices of, [67] Memory, loss of, [80] Mental disease, [45] Merchandise for natives, [115] Merk's Pyoktanin, [146] Methylen-violet, [146] Mission, American, [21]; sixteenth century, Catholic, [6];
nineteenth century, Protestant, [8] Mission school, the, [121], [129], [158], [163] Mission station, Catholic, [81] Mission station, Lambarene, [39] Mission, the, how worked, [159] Missionaries, education of, [164] Missionary Society, Paris, [8] Missions, [153]; stations and personnel of, [8]; the Catholic,
[166]; the Protestant, [165] Mollusc, the boring, [109] Monkey flesh, [72], [151] Monogamy, [126] Morel, Mr. and Mrs., [71], [152] Morphia, [47] Mortality among Europeans, [6] Mosquitoes, [60], [83] Mouila, [80]
NASTIN, [89] Native attitude towards war, [138], [151]; confidence, [36];
dishonesty, [64], [102], [162]; drinking habits, [44];
education, [122]; extravagance, [77]; girls, [129]; gratitude, [66];
industries, [124], [161]; labour, [20], [31], [78], [95], [111]; law,
[73], [151]; laziness [44], [112]; medicine, [35], [36]; punishment, [75];
superstitions, [65], [155]; unreliability, [29], [63], [135]; village, [24], [43] Natives and Europeans, relations between, [130] Natives, and Christianity, [154]; merchandise for, [115]; taxation of, [114] Nature of sleeping sickness, [83] Navigation, river, [22-26], [41] N'Djôle, [4] N'Gomje, River, [70] N'Gômô, [8], [26] N'Gounje, [78] Nicotine, [54] N'Kendju, [73], [146]
OGOWE, district of, [4] Ogowe, River, [2], [4], [23]; exploration of, [7] Oil palm, [4], [70], [71] Ojemba, [157] Okoume, [108] Oleum gynocardiæ, [89] Omnipon, [92] Operations, [55], [65], [91] Opium, [35] Orungu tribe, [6] Osteomyelitis, [66]
PAHOUINS, [6] Palm, oil, [4], [70], [71] Paris Evangelical Mission, [2], [3] Paris Missionary Society, [8] Pepper, [4] Permanganate of potash, [88] Personnel of missions, stations and, [8] Pineapples, [42] Plantations, Jesuit, [7] Pleurisy, [53] Pneumonia, [53] Poison, [47], [48] Polygamy, [126] Portuguese influence, [70] Potassium, bromide of, [37], [47] Potatoes, [5], [70], [151] Prices, [137] Prices of medicine, [67] Products, food, [98] Protestant Mission, nineteenth century, [8] Protestant missions, the, [165] Punishment, native, [75] Pyorrhoea, [55]
QUININE, [37], [56], [90]
RAFT building, [102] Railway, Belgian-Congo, [8] Rambaud, Mr., [64] Raspberry disease, [87] Rheumatism, [53], [80] Rice, [5] River navigation, [22-26], [41] River N'Gomje, [70] River Ogowe, [2], [23] Roads, forest, [121], [122] Robert, Mr., [131] Rosewood, [109] Rousseau, [155] Routine of hospital (temporary), [32], [33] Rubber, [4] Rynchoprion penetrans, [86]
SALOL, [37] Samkita, [8], [71] Sandfleas, [86] Sangunagenta, [87] Scabies (itch), [36] School, the Mission, [121], [129], [163] Schools, mission, [158] Sciatica, [80] Scopolamin, [47] Scorpions, [143] Senegambia, [16] Serval, Lieutenant, [7] Skulls (for fetishes), [51] Slavery, [6], [69] Sleeping sickness, [36], [62], [78], [81]; and medical science, [82];
cause of, [79]; conveyance of, [83]; nature of, [83]; symptoms of, [80] Sleeping Sickness Institute, [85] Snakes, [72] Stanley, [98] Stations and personnel of missions, [8] Stilling, Professor, [146] Strohl, Professor, [148] Subcutaneous injection of chaulmoogra oil, [89] Sunstroke, [58], [59] Superstition, native, [65], [155] Symptoms of sleeping sickness, [80]
TABOU, [20] Talagouga, [8], [71] Taxation of natives, [114] Teeth, [55], [148] Teneriffe, [13] Termites, [142] Thymol, [55] Timber, export of, [108]; trade, [4], [5], [25], [94-100]; felling
and transport of, [95-101]; varieties of, [108] Tobacco, [49], [54], [96], [114] Traveller ant, [143] Treatment of animals at Dakar, [17] Trees, [39] Tropical medicine, [16] Trypanosomata, [82] Tsetse fly, [42] Tumours, [55]
ULCERS, [86], [146] Unreliability, native, [29], [63], [135]
VANILLA, [4] Varieties of timber, [108] Village, native, [24], [43] Virgin forest, the, [23], [39]
WAR, [136]; influence of, [167]; native attitude towards, [138], [151] Weaver bird, [72] West African harbours, [20] Whooping-cough, [52] Wife-purchase, [76], [128] Women, diseases of, [55] Women's labour, [63]
YAM, [70]
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