Black and white photograph featuring a Nigerian man sitting in a wooden recliner at the Ama Achara hospital in southeast Nigeria run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. A woman stands next to him in traditional dress, holding a small baby. The man wears trousers and a shirt. The caption to this image reads: "Man in chair - very severe Lock-jaw who recovered." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Health services Missionary work Patients Hospitals Trismus Families Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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