Jim Corbett, the great conservationist , had this story to narrate of rural Central Provinces, during the British Raj.
A village chief, a friend of Jim’s , was known for his unconventional methods of healing people. Once , a man-eating tiger attacked another man , who was gathering honey in the forest, and was left for dead on the forest floor.
The family and friends of this man came running to the village chief, to his hut where he sat smoking his hubble-bubble.
The chief went over to the clearing in the forest , and found the victim , on the forest floor, his guts spilled, from a gash in the abdomen, gasping and bleeding like hell.
Legend says this chief, stitched his abdomen up, right there, using a thorn for needle,and green tree bark for thread.
There was , of course, no eye in the needle.
The legend also says that there were twigs and dead leaves sticking to the intestines, which the chief did not bother to remove. They were all stitched up the way they were.Amazingly, this man, lived for another ten years, hale and hearty, without any side effects of the gory event and equally unorthodox treatment.
A village chief, a friend of Jim’s , was known for his unconventional methods of healing people. Once , a man-eating tiger attacked another man , who was gathering honey in the forest, and was left for dead on the forest floor.
The family and friends of this man came running to the village chief, to his hut where he sat smoking his hubble-bubble.
The chief went over to the clearing in the forest , and found the victim , on the forest floor, his guts spilled, from a gash in the abdomen, gasping and bleeding like hell.
Legend says this chief, stitched his abdomen up, right there, using a thorn for needle,and green tree bark for thread.
There was , of course, no eye in the needle.
The legend also says that there were twigs and dead leaves sticking to the intestines, which the chief did not bother to remove. They were all stitched up the way they were.Amazingly, this man, lived for another ten years, hale and hearty, without any side effects of the gory event and equally unorthodox treatment.
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