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Show HRDLICKA] TUBERCULOSIS AMONG CERTAIN INDIAN TRIBES 39 HUBER, J. B. Races and peoples with regard to tuberculosis. Med. News, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1904. Page 917: " It seems that the Indian was free from tuberculosis before his contact with the whites, living as he did in the open air and without alcohol." The article contains no original material. HUNTER, J. D. Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians. Third ed., Lond., 1824. Pages 432- 3: " Among the Osages I have known two cases of what I now suppose to have been white swellings, neither subject was more than fifteen years of age. One was of the knee, and the other on the ankle joint." Page 435: " Consumption.- This disease but rarely occurs." " I have known only a few instances of this complaint amongst the Indians, brought on by exposure. Intemperance is the principal cause of its prevalence amongst them." Pages 444- 5: " I have known pulmonary consumption to occur among the Indians. It is rarely seen, however, except in those addicted to intemperance; and even in these it is by no means so common as among the whites. It is worthy of notice that females are not so subject to the disease as males are. I have never known it to affect a person before puberty, and very seldom under twenty years of age. It appears in far the greater number between the ages of twenty and forty years." Remarks on several diseases prevalent among the western Indians, etc. Amer. Med. Recorder, Phila., 1822, v, 408- 17. Page 416: " I have known pulmonary consumption to occur among the Indians. It is rarely seen, however, except in those who are addicted to intemperance, and even in these it is by no means so common as among the whites." " I have never known it to affect a person before puberty, and very seldom under 20 years of age." Females less subject than males. The paper contains no data on s'crofula. Observations on the diseases incident to certain of the North American Indian tribes. N. Y. Med. and Phys. Jour., N. Y., 1822, i, 174- 9. Consumption exists among the Indians- in those who drink ( exposure, etc.), but also in those who do not. The article contains no data on scrofula. JAMES'S account of S. H. Long's expedition, 1819- 20, in Early Western Travels, Thwaite's ed., xvi. Referring to the plains of the Platte, the upper Arkansas, and the Red River of Louisiana, the writer says, page 132: " It is true that few, if any, instances of pulmonary consumption occur among the Indians of this region. The same remark is probably as true of the original native population of Ne" w York and New England." JESUIT RELATIONS, Thwaite's ed.: vi, 263: le Jeune's relation, 1633- 34. Montagnais: " We had three persons in one cabin afflicted with scrofula- the son of the man whose ear was very disgusting and horrid from this disease; his nephew, who had it in his neck; and a daughter, who had it under one arm. I do not know whether this is the real scrofula; whatever it is, this sore is full of pus, and covered with a horrible- looking crust. They are nearly all attacked by this disease when young, both on account of their filthy habits and because they eat and drink indiscriminately with the sick." No reference is made to scars iollowing the sores. Possibly the author includes cases of pemphigo contagiosa. XLI, 195: Father le Mercier's relation, 1653- 54, New France Algonquians. At Tadoussac a child " was afflicted in a frightful manner with scrofula on his neck, and his entire throat was being eaten away by it; while the little girl suffered from a hemorrhage which was reducing her to a skeleton." a a Imperfect translation. Original reads: " Avoit un flux de sang qui la desechoit insques aux os." |