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Jesuit relations — Continued. 



XLiv, 267: Relation of 1657-58. 



Referring to a full-blood Huron girl, who was to become a nun in the convent, the 

 writer says: "He (the Lord) visited her with a malady which is common enough 

 among the Savages, being a kind of weakness, together with a slow fever; and this so 

 exhausted her that she wasted away before our eyes with an inflammation, accompa- 

 nied by a severe cough, which affected her whole chest to such an extent that her 

 lungs were gradually destroyed." 

 Lvii, 165: Relation of 1672-73. 



' ' A poor woman . . . who had been consumptive for two years. " 

 Lxv, 47: Relation of 1696-1702. 



Montagnais: Referring to the missionary among the people — "sometimes he is 

 made ill by the stench of those who have scrofula, with whom he even drinks out of 

 the same kettle." 

 Lxviii, 61: Saguenay relation, 1720-30. 



Montagnais: "All, with the exception of a young child attacked by scrofula, were 

 in wonderful health." 



There are only two other references to consumption in the Indians in the Jesuit 

 Relations, and both of these are very indefinite. They occur in vol. xii, 7, and vol. 

 Lv, 205. 

 JossELYN, J. New-Engiands rarities. Lond., 1672; rejarint, Boston, 1865. 



Page 90: "Oak of Cappadocia — excellent for stuffing of the lungs upon colds, short- 

 ness of wind, and the ptisick; maladies that the natives are often troubled with." 



An account of two voyages to New England. Boston, 1865; original, Lond., 



1675. 



Page 102: "In New England the Indians are afflicted with pestilent Fevers, Plague, 

 Black-pox, Consumption of the Lungs, Falling-sickness, Kings-evil, and a Disease 

 called by the Spaniards the Plague in the back, with an Empyema." 

 Kneeland, J. On some causes tending to promote the extinction of the aborigines 

 of America. Trans. Amer. Med. Ass., Phila., 1865, xv, 253-60. 



Reports on the Onondagas (near Syracuse, N. Y.). Scrofula present in many adults 

 and in most children. Consumption prevalent — a large percentage of the deaths in 

 the tribe due to this disease. 

 Lafitau, J. F. Moeursdessauvagesameriquains, etc. Par., 2 vols., 1724. 



Deals mainly with the Indians of New France. 



Vol. 2, pp. 360-61: The savages suffered with "maladies scrophuleuses, causees par 

 la erudite des eaux, par les eaux de neige, qu'ils sont obliges de faire fondre dans les 

 pais de chasse, pour boire, & pour faire cuire leur sagamite. C'est peut-etre du meme 

 principe, & de ce qu'ils ont toUjours I'estomach & la poitrine decouverte, qu'ils con- 

 tractent une espece de phtisie, qui les minant peu a peu, en conduit la plus grande 

 partie au Tombeau, & a laquelle ils n'ont pu encore trouver de remede." 



". . . ces sortes d' infirmites . . . les prennent d' ordinaire a la fleur de I'age." 



La Hontan. New voyages to America. Two vols., Lond., 1703. 



Contains observations on the ('anadian Indians, period 1683-94. 



II, 47: "it throws all of 'em into that Languishing Disorder, which we call a Con- 

 sumption: They look pale, livid and ghastly like skeletons." 



No notes on scrofula are given. 

 Lewis and Clark. Travels to the source of the Missouri river, etc., 1804-1806. 

 Lond., 1814. 



Page 341, Chopunuish or Nez Perce: "They are generally healthy — the only dis- 

 orders which we have had occasion to remark being of a scrofulous kind, and for 

 these, as well as for the amusement of those who are in good health, hot and cold 

 bathing is very commonly used." 



