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Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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people and also for cattle. Surgery is in itsinfancy, and bone-setters are more often Chinese thanShan. There are several old men and women in eachvillage, wise in spells and charms, who have a con-siderable knowledge of the virtues of certain kinds ofbark and herbs. Shans recognise the fact that some diseases—suchas sore eyes and small-pox—may be contagious orinfectious, and they burn the clothes of any personwho has died of the latter disease. If a serious epidemic occurs in a village, the sick areoften left to the care of a few old people; the otherinhabitants leave their homes and build huts for them-selves in the jungle, living there until they think thatthe danger is over. If an epidemic has been verysevere, villages and even towns have been desertedand rebuilt on new sites. In old times it was the custom in the Shan States,as in Burma, to bury alive a man or woman underthe palace or the gates of a new city, so that thespirits of the dead in guarding the place from human 178
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