Symptoms are Classified into Diagnostic Categories; Turkana's View of Livestock Diseases

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Thirty-seven livestock disease categories of the Turkana are examined. Special attention was directed toward their etymology, curative means, and etiology. The Turkana have not developed therapeutic measures. They lack pathogenic explanations and the etiology is of little significance in their dealing with livestock diseases. It is only the classification of diseases which attains high development. All livestock disease names have their etymology in the conspicuous symptoms and/or parts of body where the given disease occurs. In their system, what is classified is not the disease as the causes of disorder in health, but the conspicuous uncommonness visible on the animals' body. Because the disease names have their motive in the substances of disease (symptoms), referring itself to the morbid condition of animals, functions as a diagnostic process.
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