The Yoruba Medicine of Antiquity: Ruminations of a 21st Century Orthopaedic SurgeonThe fact that the Yoruba of yore survived in an environment that their 18th and 19th century Europeans immigrants found challenging attests to the efficacy of the Yoruba medicine. Therefore, one expected that Yoruba medicine would have contributed something to medicine in general, but this has not been so. This semi autobiographical book was a search for an explanation for this failure. The search has taken the form of an investigation into the