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Author : Charles Whitebread
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : COLUMBIA:HS64945090
Author : United States National Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:FL2CIK
Author : United States National Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081143417
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:$C160869
Author : United States National Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Science
ISBN : IND:30000089501591
Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806189772
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. It discusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were brought to the Indian by the white man. It also lists Indian drugs that have won acceptance in the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary. The influence of American Indian healing arts on the medicine and healing and pharmacology of the white man was considerable. For example, such drugs as insulin and penicillin were anticipated in rudimentary form by the aborigines. Coca leaves were used as narcotics by Peruvian Indians hundreds of years before Carl Koller first used cocaine as a local anesthetic in 1884. All together, about 170 medicines, mostly botanical, were contributed to the official compendia by Indians north of the Rio Grande, about 50 more coming from natives of the Latin-American and Caribbean regions. Impressions and attitudes of early explorers, settlers, physicians, botanists, and others regarding Indian curative practices are reported by geographical regions, with British, French, and Spanish colonies and the young United States separately treated. Indian theories of disease—sorcery, taboo violation, spirit intrusion, soul loss, unfulfilled dreams and desires, and so on -and shamanistic practices used to combat them are described. Methods of treating all kinds of injuries-from fractures to snakebite-and even surgery are included. The influence of Indian healing lore upon folk or domestic medicine, as well as on the "Indian doctors" and patent medicines, are discussed. For the convenience of the reader, an index of botanical names is provided, together with a wide variety of illustrations. The disproportionate attention that has been given to the superstitious and unscientific features of aboriginal medicine has tended to obscure its real contributions to American civilization.
Author : William L. Merrill
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780932206152
Author : Leon Lloyd Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Amphorophora
ISBN : OSU:32435029578622
Author : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : MINN:31951002204940F
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023918871
Author : Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89005562046
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112062426512
Author : United States National Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015082571947
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754073304358
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121175330