Indian Medicine

file type icon 9900425
Description: 

During the Pan American Exposition, the most serious ailments among the Indians in attendance were colds, headaches, and indigestion. The author attended a healing ceremony that removed the pain from a broken leg; he describes it. Several men consorted with prostitutes at the Exposition and acquired the resultant gonorrhea that was treated with a tea made of leaves or mountain rush. Despite a medicine man's best efforts, a 3 year old girl died of epileptic seizures.

People: 
Apache, Cahuilla Band of Indians, Cheyenne, Navajo, Sioux
Location Description: 

California CA; Montana MT; South Dakota SD

Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Anatomy, Death, Diseases, Mental/Emotional, Plants, Ritual Objects, Traditional Treatment, Tribal Actions, Women/Children
Original Date Description: 
1901-1902
Original Date: 
1901
Creator: 
Wilson, N.W.
Language: 
English
Rights: 
This item is in the Public Domain
Source: 
Field Columbian Mus Pub; 41:740-49.
Identifier: 
9900425
Subject: 
Ceremonial, Communicable Diseases, Concept Formation, Cultural Characteristics, Death, Fracture, Gonorrhea, Infant, Infant Mortality, Medicinal Plants, Ritual Objects, Seizures, Traditional Medicine
Type: 
Monograph