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replaced. In fact, in many cases native methods will be used before or after 

 hospitalization. The hospital is received into the culture as one more curative 

 device, and upon failure of that device the patient may take recourse to 

 native methods. Certain people take great delight in citing cases where, 

 after the hospital had failed to effect a cure, the patient was taken home 

 and cured by Indian doctoring. The dangers of simultaneous use of Indian 

 and modern medical therapeutics were recognized by Miss Gardner, a former 

 field nurse who said she had always told a patient "Either take my medicine 

 or your medicine, but don't take them both." 



One of the problems at the hospital is that of keeping a patient long 

 enough to cure him. The Chippewa, with their love of the out-of-doors, 

 are not fond of being confined inside for any length of time. Also, their 

 desire to be among their own friends and family may reach the compulsive 

 stage where a patient just walks out and returns home, utterly disregarding 

 the instructions and advice of the Medical staff. Cases such as the following 

 are not uncommon: 



A.S. refused to stay in the hospital even though she had bronchial pneumonia. 

 She had her husband take her home where she was seated for four days by two old 

 ladies, but died shortly after (Field Notes 1943). 



V.G. expecting a baby at any time, was taken to the hospital for delivery, but 

 she got lonely and walked the mile and a half into Hayward where she had her 

 husband come and take her home (Field Notes 1943). 



The problem of keeping a patient in the tuberculosis sanitorium for the 



long period often required for cure is especially great. 



