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Dandouau, André (detail)
   
1922
Ody et fanafody (charmes et remèdes). Pharmacopée Sakalave et Tsimihety.
Rev. d'Ethnogr. et des Trads. Pops. (Paris, Larose) 3(10): 111-128.
–Describes (119) Madagascar natives' use of the fat of a "cochon de mer" as a cure for deafness, and opines that the animal is a Physeter or sperm whale. Petit (1923: 83) thinks it more probably a dugong.

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Madagascar
  x 1922 Dandouau, A. (?DD fat as remedy; 119.)

Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
  x 1922 Dandouau, A. (?DD; Madagascar; fat; 119.)


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