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== Name of the illnesses ==
The people surveyed told us that in the early decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> 20th century and even later, village people in general identified illnesses as pains, ''miñak'', and as afflictions,'' gaitzak.''
When the affliction was inside the body and severe, it was called colic. There were kidney and liver colic and the colic known as ''miserere<ref>''This name reflected its fulminating nature; in fact, Miserere (Have mercy) is the first word of Psalm 50 which was sang during the burial, i.e., as the corpse was carried into to the church.''</ref>, ''which included several types of stomach afflictions, all of which were serious and included bowel obstruction.
== Contemporary transitions ==
Among the transitions seen in domestic healthcare during the 20<sup>th</sup> 20th century, the people surveyed highlighted as the most significant the increase in standard of living as the result of improving hygiene conditions, the medical culture being disseminated to all households thanks to the media and access to the services that public healthcare offers.
=== Food and household hygiene ===
