BAILEY'S EARLY AFRICAN MEDICAL/ SURGERY PROCESSES Volume 81

ABOUT THE BOOKWhen Humankind first appeared 200,000 years ago in Ethiopia's Afar beautiful, snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains, Primitive Africans resorted to herbs, roots, animal substances to Magically encourage good Spirits to keep supplying crops + to discourage bad Spirits' production of frightening forked lightening, tornadoes, eclipses, deaths. Over time, they used Subjective Science 'tools' of Observation, Reflection, "Pure" Feelings, Productive Imagination, Inductive/Deductive Inferences, Contemplation, Common Sense, Logic (linking inner similarities to establish interrelationships) to find Knowns for discovering Unknowns + weed out the false. Examples of Truths were seeing all animal mothers nourishing/protecting their newborns + observation of a Thing's natural Mathematical Evolution (e.g. babies into adults). Both implied an Unknowable God Source. Ever attempting to expand on Truths were Shaman, 'Medicine Men," using herbs to produce consciousness alterations; Prophets (summoning Spirits to aid portents ideas of future truths); Seers (claiming revelations from God through moon inspired Visions); Divination practitioners (future predicted with artificial aids); Oracles (declaring a god speaks to humans via priests); Foreseers reading stars or animals' entrails to discern gods' future decrees. Those finding that God's Will is expressed by Instincts, inferred they represented Messages, yoked to humans' Genius/Wisdom/Intellect hierarchy for Virtues' displays. African Sages Inferences came from: (1) Contemplation's Felt Knowledge; (2) Introspection (Reflection) "Know Thyself" Explorations leading to Common Sense, Reasoning, Logical Mysticism Insights; (3) Intuition--Spiritual Elements understanding of Unconditional Love, Truth, Reality, Naturalness that enlarge Insights; (4) Revelations of God's Messages entering ones Genius as Virtual Icon Images to impart Essence Visions of a pertinent Unrealized Reality. In assessing these, African Sages grasped Truth coming from within, pertaining to validity degrees of pertinent ones. Using Subjective/Objective Science insights, they selected those capable of vanishing Core issues involved, for which they could produce solutions to come into Realized absolute Reality. Insights came from knowing "Secrets" of each Unrealized Reality's linked inner meanings of an Entity's external appearances--which gift the invariably Spiritually Uplifting + vital to establishing, enhancing, maintaining natural order--a central axis for all future like-kind Settings/Situations. These formed the common final pathway out of which African Sages inferred, from the Divine Logos, that Sound waves underlie the structure of all things and events. Thus, they can create, maintain, or destroy structures of what-all they underlie. So, accepted ones served as Divine Paradigm frameworks for generating, applying, sustaining Morals, Ethics, Knowledge, Standards, Filters, Guides, Measures, Estimates. That Values System Ordered ones personal/group life. By all following Cosmic Truths to stay Organized, doors opened, among others, to Metaphysical Medicine. It--as part of African Traditions' wholistic approach to Humanity Caring for mind, body, soul--manipulates Spiritual Icon Images. Examples of doing Medicine and Surgery to preserve mental, physical, emotional health are Ancient Egyptian Priests, inferring music sounds vibrated at a certain rate, used music to cure medical diseases + heal minds, spirits of Africans in need. Surgically, Dogons of Mali did circumcisions to rid newborns of any evil force, for hygienic, cultural, monotheistic purposes. Others did trephining (relieving brain pressure); Caesarean sections; Surgery inside the human brain; and, especially impressive, were surgical specialists for humans' right eye and others for the left eye. Cultures all over the world borrowed every aspect of each African Creation/Invention/Discovery to thus make Africa the Mecca of the world for 198,000 years.