A brief survey of Iloko literature from the beginnings to its present development, with a bibliography of works pertaining to the Iloko people and their language, by Leopoldo Y. Yabes.

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Jr. and some of which dealt with the duties of citizenship, have
been translated into the vernacular, mimeographed, and distributed among the masses. The happy result of these publications
is that the people are now more civic-minded than before.
D. SCIENTIFIC WORKS, ETC.
Works in Iloko of a scientific character, particularly regarding the medical sciences, began to appear towards the close of the
last century. During the nineties a pamphlet entitled Daguiti
rumbeng iga aramiden caguiti ubbing a cayan-anac... (Our
Duties Towards the New-Born Babies...) was published. In
1904 Victorino Crisologo physician, translated into Iloko a
medical work written by brs. Ariston Bautista, Mariano Martin, and Manuel Gomez, and the Bureau of Printing published
it under the title Panangayoan cadaguiti cayyanac nga ububbing
(Care of the New-Born Babies). In 1913 Rebecca Parish's
Care of the Body (Panagsaluad iti bagi) was translated into
Iloko, and a little later her other work, Save the Babies (Isalacan daguiti ubbing), was also translated. In 1920 a translation
by Leon Z. Roda of A. C. Selmon's Book on Medicine (Libro ti
panangagas) was published, and possibly sometime later appeared Medico del hogar zwenno Arayat dagiti masaksakit
(Doctor of the Home or Aid to the Sick). The Bureau of
Health has from time to time issued pamphlets in Iloko on the
prevention and cure of such common diseases as tuberculosis,
malaria, beriberi, and cholera. Iloko literature on the these and
other diseases has been much augmented by the mimeographed
copies of the Community Assembly lectures.
'There have also appeared some books on the science of
home economics, and among these may be mentioned a pamphlet
on home duties (Pagbasaan a iniloco quen anno ti babai nga
agtaguibalay); a book on how to cook (Libro ti panagluto, 1934),
translated from various works in Tagalog, English, and Spanish; and a book on cooking and food preservation (Dagiti panaglutuan ti Filipino ken panagconservar, 1934), a translation
of Pura Villanueva de Kalaw's work.
Among the miscellaneous works,'0 there are books on astrology (Lunario nga sao ti iloco-V. Parayno y Corpus), palmistry
(Pagsignoan, pagsidingan quen pagpaladan-B. Cabarroguis),
poultry (Panagtaracnan ti manoc-H. Capistrano), love and
courtship (Pagbasaan ken ayat-P. Agcaoili), agriculture, commerce (Panagtagilaco-F. Galang), fortune telling (Naimbag a
pomipintas juego de fortuna... -V. Parayno y Corpus), and
good manners and right conduct.
10-For a more complete information on these books see the bibliography
at the end of this work.