Fifth day Part one
Early in the morning, people came to report cases of annoying pimples. Now Paxma had to make a decision, and got out of it by cutting the baby in half. In the Tribe were two women who could cure boils, even by cutting, if necessary: Vania and Gumersinda, good connoisseurs of empirical nursing methods, who had already been old when he had come to the Village. Besides, over the years, he had added a good many notions on medicinal plants to their good existing knowledge. Now they knew how to prepare and administer or apply the most important medicines for the common diseases of their people. Moreover, yes, also how to dissect a pimple. Nevertheless, about the sterility of the … surgical environment … and hygiene in general, he’d better have no illusions.
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