Indian Practice on the Northern Coast of California.

file type icon 9900205
Description: 

In a letter to St. Joseph Medical Herald, Thorworth describes a Digger medicine man, living conditions, food, childbirth, and ailments.

People: 
Paiute
Location Description: 

California CA

Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Death, Diseases, Ritual Objects, Tribal Actions, Women/Children
Original Date: 
1886
Creator: 
Thorworth, J.F.
Language: 
English
Rights: 
This item is in the Public Domain
Source: 
4:130-31.
Identifier: 
9900205
Subject: 
Communicable Diseases, Cultural Characteristics, Delivery, Endophthalmitis, Eye Disease, Fetal Mortality, Labor, Pregnancy, Ritual Objects, Syphilis
Type: 
Monograph