Medical Practices Of The New England Aborigines

Description:

New England history reveals smallpox and yellow fever epidemics among the natives during the years 1612-19, and 1634. Indians always used a specific therapeutic agent for a single ailment. Thirty of 56 drugs listed as recognized in the US Pharmacopoeia or in the National Formulary were used by the Indians of New England (drugs are listed). Abridged by the author from a paper read before the Section on Historical Pharmacy, Am. Pharm. Assn, Portland meeting, 1935. Bibliography. Poor copy, margins blurred.

Protocol:

UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access

Community:

UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center

Category:

Diseases, History Of Medicine, Plants, Traditional Treatment, Tribal Actions, Western Drugs

Original Date:

1936

Language:

English

Rights:

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Source:

Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 1936;25:138-47.

Identifier:

9901237

Subject:

Common Cold, Communicable Diseases, Diphtheria, Dysentery, Fever, History Of Medicine 17Th Century, Malaria, Measles, Medicinal Plants, Pharmacopoeias, Pneumonia, Scarlet Fever, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Smallpox, Traditional Medicine, Yellow Fever

Type:

Monograph