VI OONTEJSITS 



IX. Physiology — Continued. Page 



Physiological observations on adults 132 



Stature. 132 



Pulse, respiration, and temperature 138 



Resume of the data shown in the preceding tables, and 



comparison with whites 141 



Muscular force 143 



Summary of the principal results of instrumental determinations 



on the adult 152 



Further observations 153 



The skin and its appendages 153 



Special senses 154 



Sleep and dreams 154 



Mental and nervous powers 155 



Varia , 155 



Digestion 156 



Obesity 156 



Menstruation (in adults) and climacterium 157 



Senility 157 



Grayness 159 



Loss of hair 161 



X. Notes on social abnormalities 163 



Artificial abortion .• 163 



Details 163 



Artificial sterility 165 



Infanticide 165 



Crime 166 



Suicide 171 



XI. Medical observations ' 172 



Pathogeny 172 



Diseases among the Indians of the Southwest and of northern Mexico. 175 



Summary • 187 



Albinism 192 



Diseases among Indians in various parts of the United States 197 



Albinism 198 



Goiter 199 



Cretinism 201 



Insanity . . 201 



Epilepsy 202 



Idiocy 204 



Deaf and dumb 206 



Spinal curvatures 208 



Tuberculosis 209 



Physicians' notes 213 



XII. Indian conception of disease, its prevention and treatment; folk medi- 

 cine and medicine-men 220 



Medicine-men 221 



Medicine-women 224 



Tribal details 224 



Prevention 229 



Folk medicine 231 



