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 con- 

 tact 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." 



Pagoe 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 scrofula. 



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. II. 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 pul- 

 monary consumption occur among the Indians of this region. The same remark is 

 probably as true of the original native poi^ulation of New 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 indis- 

 criminately with 'the sick." 



No reference is made to scars lollowing 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." « 



almperfect translation. Original reads: " Avoit un flux de sang qui la desechoit insques aux os." 



