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Early Māori

1839 Engraving of a Māori whare, Pipitea Pā.

Early Māori may not have known what scientists know about the immune system today but they knew how to fight infection and diseases through the use of rongoā.

Engraving by Louis E. Ward, courtesy of The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence
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