ABSTRACT
Cuts, scratches and abrasions come from climbing and from forest walking. By knowing the main features of ridge, slope, river, vegetation, and stream, they rarely get lost in the forest. The forests are crossed by main paths which are known to and used by all travellers. They are worn enough to be recognized except in distant hunting bush where they may be missed. The chapter deals with some medical aspects of their adaptation. Environment, adaptation and the mode of life all contribute in different small ways to the pattern and incidence of these minor ailments, and the author have tried to show how this comes about. The water holes are suited well to the spread of water-borne disease. The disease was presumably bacillary dysentery. Breathlessness which forced the subject to stay in the village was seen in acute chest infections and in two cases of heart failure.
