Medical Knowledge Of The Indian

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Description: 

There is a difference between magical professors and Indian doctors and the latter must not be confused with the former. The Indian doctor has knowledge of disorders and their remedies, including a forest materia Médica. Sketch of an "Indian doctor concocting a post of medicine" is attached. Sketch.

People: 
American Indian
Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Traditional Treatment, Tribal Actions
Original Date: 
1855
Creator: 
Schoolcraft, Hr.
Language: 
English
Rights: 
This item is in the Public Domain
Source: 
The American Naturalist; Schoolcraft, HR. Medical knowledge of the Indian. In: Historical and statistical information respecting the history and conditions..Phila: Lippincott & Co. 1855;5:443-46.
Identifier: 
9900090
Subject: 
Ceremonial, Shamanism, Traditional Medicine
Type: 
Monograph