In primitive societies sick people had to rely on medicine men andwitch doctors.（Some peo

In primitive societies sick people had to rely on medicine men and

witch doctors.(Some people still rely on them. ) It was believed that a per-

son was sick because he has been attacked by evil spirits The witch doctor's S1.______

job was to drive away these spirits. S2.______

His technique involved a combination of three methods, first of which S3.______

was religious. He chanted magic words, and used good luck charms which

he thought had power on the evil spirits that supposedly had entered the S4.______

victim's body. Secondly, he deliberately fed the ancient mixtures, and were S5.______

often filthy and disgusting, to make the evil spirits so uncomfortable that

they would glad run away and so enable the patient to get well. The third S6.______

method was to give the patient medicines preparing from certain plants and S7.______

herbs that were similar in shape or texture to the various organs of the

body. From our points of view, this was the only method that had any val- S8.______

ue. Modem scientific study has shown that some of these remedies had real

usefulness in curing sickness, and at least in relieving pain, but not for the S9.______

reasons advanced by the witch doctors. S10.______

【S1】