Sri Lankan sanni masks: An ancient classification of disease

British Medical Journal

Volumn 333, Issue 7582, 2006, Pages 1327-1328

  Bailey, Mark S ^a   De Silva, H Janaka ^b  

^a Army Medical Directorate   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBUNCLE; CHILL; CHOLERA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FACE MASK; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARALYSIS; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; SRI LANKA; STOMACH DISEASE; STROKE; VOMITING;

CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE; DRAMA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL HEALING; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33845918932     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39055.445417.BE     Document Type: Article

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