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Show BIBLIOGRAPHY This bibliography is added as a help to the student of the subject, but has no claim to completeness. For additional literature, see the bibliography in Bulletin 34 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Minor notes on " scrofula" or " consumption" are scattered through the reports of many travelers, missionaries, and other early writers which deal with the Indians. ANDREW, J. The Lumleian lectures on the aetiology of phthisis. Brit. Med. Jour., April, 1884, 655- 59. In 1881- 82 consumption was prevalent among the Indians along the northern shore of Hudson bay. BLASCHKE, E. Topographia medica portus Novi- Archangelscensis. Petropoli, 1842, 62, 66- 69. Reports consumption and scrofula to be common among the natives of the region. BOUCHARDAT, M. L'Ann. de th^ rap., Par., 1861, 71. Gives a note on tuberculosis among the Hudson Bay Eskimo. BREWER, I. W. Tuberculosis among the Indians of Arizona land New Mexico. N. Y. Med. Jour., 1906, LXXXIV, 981- 83. Gives school and reservation physicians' reports on tuberculosis among the Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. BULL, H. R. Tuberculosis among the Indians. Trans. Colo. Med. Soc., Denver, 1894, 314- 21. Reports on cases of tuberculosis under his observation during five years at the Grand Junction school for the Indians. COINDET, L. Hygiene des altitudes du Mexique. M£ m. de m£ d. milit., 1869, xxn, 209. Reports that subsequent to the siege of Puebla, Mexico, phthisis prevailed among the Indian and Creole captives after they were brought to Orizaba. FARNHAM'S travels in the great western prairies, etc., 1839, in Early Western Travels, Thwaite's ed., xxvm, 159. Speaking of the " Chippeways," the writer says: " They have conjurers who cure diseases- as rheumatism, flux, and consumption." Fox, CARROLL. Tuberculosis among the Indians of southeastern Alaska. Public Health Reports, Marine Hos. Ser., xvi, pt. n, 1615- 16,1901, Washington, 1902. Comments on the prevalence of all forms of tuberculosis among the natives of southeastern Alaska; no statistics. GLISAN, R. Climate and diseases of Oregon. Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., 1865, 73- 82. Page 79: " At the close of the Rogue river war the scattered remnants of all the tribes of Indians in Oregon, west of the Cascade mountains, were moved on a reservation lying between the Willamette valley and the Pacific ocean, the total number being about 5,000souls." . . . " Here they enjoyed moderate health for a short period only. Diarrhoea, dysentery, pneumonia, consumption, and scrofula, in all its varieties, soon became prevalent, and carried them off in large numbers." The article contains no statistics or history. 37 |