cover image: Badly wounded case requiring 50 stitches, Nigeria, ca. 1925

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Badly wounded case requiring 50 stitches, Nigeria, ca. 1925

Black and white photograph showing a patient at the Ama Achara hospital run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. He sits on a chair with bandages around his legs, arms and head, and cuts on his body are bandaged. A male Nigerian nurse stands next to him and tends one of his bandages. The caption next to this image reads: "Badly wounded case requiring 50 stitches." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
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Authors

Emily Godfrey

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77865
Date published
1920/1930
Dates
1920/1930
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-3-15.tif
Rights
Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/b6cbe7393078066d032890d92b74ca58

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