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Page 549: We "had a number of patients afflicted with scrofula, rheumatism, and 

 sore eyes." "The scrofulous disorders we may readily conjecture to originate in the 

 long confinement to vegetable diet." 

 LucKLEY, Geo. Trans. Amer. Med. Ass., 1857, xi. 



Page 215: "Throughout the country phthisis pulmonalis appears to be the most 

 common nonspecific disease with the aborigines." 



"On the coast and in the settled districts, although hardships and scarcity of food 

 do not exist in any proportion to what is encoimtered in the interior, yet the same 

 disease is even more common." 



Page 216: "Strumous diseases are very common and are rapidly increasing. The 

 most common of these are caries of the sjnne, morbus coxarius, and glandular ulcera- 

 tions." 



Matthews, Washington. Consumption among the Indians. Trans. Amer. Clim. 

 Ass., Phila., 1886. 



Notes finding consumption everywhere, except in Owen's valley, California, but 

 even there the symptoms of scrofula were not entirely wanting. 



According to his observations, tuberculosis was less common in the tribes he knew, 

 during his earlier observations. 



Gives statistics of the diseases at several of the northern agencies. 

 ■ Further contribution to the study of consumption among the Indians. Trans. 



Amer. Clim. Ass., Phila., 



Page 142: "We have evidence that the wildest Indians in the earliest historic 

 times were subject to consumption; yet they were not subject to it in a high degree, 

 and it is probable that they suffered then from a different form of the malady to that 

 which troubles the modern Indian. But we have evidence that scrofula begins to 

 prevail among them when they cease to live by chase, and that it is a condition pre- 

 disposing to consumption among them." 



Gives information from the physicians at eastern and northern agencies, all relating 

 to latter half of nineteenth century. No historical documents are included. 

 Maximilian's travels in the interior of North America, in Early Western Travels, 

 Thwaite's ed., xxii. 



Treats of period 1832-34. 



Page 236: Saukie Indians from lower Missouri — " One of their most distinguished 

 warriors . . . suffered severely from consumption." 



Morse, J. A report- to the Secretary of War of the U. S. on Indian Affairs, etc. New 

 Haven, 1822. 

 Page 347, appendix: Referring to the Indians east of the Rocky Mountains and 

 north of Missouri, the author states that they "are, in general, subject to few diseases. 

 The venereal complaint is common to all the tribes of the North; many die of a con- 

 sumption." 



Morton, S. G. Illustrations of pulmonary consumption, etc. Phila., 1837. 



Includes a letter on consumption among the Indians, by Dr. Z. Pitcher. 



Speaking of the Chippewa, Ottawa, Menominee, Osage, Pawnee, Omaha, Kansas, 

 Creeks, Cherokee, (Jhoctaw, Seneca, Shawnee, and Delawares, the Doctor says: 



Page 312: "Consumption is a disease familiar to all those with whom I have had 

 any personal acquaintance; and I think also that I may go further, and state, with- 

 out fear of contradiction, that it is prevalent among all the natives of the northern 

 section of our continent." 



The author learned of the disease among Mandan in Missouri , and from officers of 

 the Hudson Bay Company regarding all tribe?! under their jurisdiction. It is his 

 opinion that — 



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