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During the writer's stay with tliis tribe in the early part of 1905 

 several of the school children suffered with various forms of tuber- 

 culosis, two dpng of tubercular meningitis. 



On the White Mountain (Arizona) reservation cases of tuberculosis 

 are less common, but are more frequent again among the Jicarillas (see 

 the statistical portion of this chapter). 



Both epilepsy and insanity are occasionally encountered among the 

 Apache. The writer's Apache interpreter at White Mountain (Ari- 

 zona), about 35 years old, had known personally five epileptics — three 

 young men and two young women. Dr. S. D. Bell, in 1000 the White 

 Mountain (Fort Apache) agency physician, during the time of his stay 

 on the reservation, saw two cases of epilepsy, both in young men, 

 and three of insanity — one in an old man, one in a middle-aged man, 

 and one in a schoolboy; information was also obtained of one middle- 

 aged man and one child imbecile. Insanity in the female sex was 

 said to be very rare, as among other tribes in the Southwest and 

 northern Mexico. 



One of the writer's White Mountain Apache guides had a boy who, 

 from nervousness, could not eat the red-fleshed pitahaya; "it looked 

 to him too much like blood." 



It was denied that the tulipi causes any sickness, although an excess 

 of it induces vomiting. The after effects are weakness and headache, 

 but these seldom last more than half a day; there is no loss of appetite, 

 rather the reverse. In nursing women there seems to be no great 

 effect on the quantity of the milk, but the writer has seen nursing 

 infants who were made more or less sick by such milk. 



On the San Carlos agency there were, in the early part of 1905, two 

 old men partially insane. One of these was entirely harmless, and was 

 said to have "pretty good sense," but would often walk about singing 

 aloud and acting queerly. He was laughed at by the others, and 

 took this ridicule go.od naturedly. The other man was also quite 

 harmless, but w^as said to have a tendency to steal and also delu- 

 sions. The writer observed both cases and diagnosed them as light 

 forms of dementia. 



A San Carlos man was seen who had paresis of both legs. He could 

 extend and contract his limbs, but could not stand up. He had fallen 

 from a horse a number of times, but did not connect any of these 

 accidents with his ailment, which began very gradually about seven 

 years ago. The condition of the patient at the present time is about 

 stationary. 



As to nervous affections in children, there were in January, 1905, at 

 the San Carlos school, four of the larger girls who suffered from 

 nervous spells w^hich, from the description given, were hysteria. The 

 attacks, according to the matron, were in all quite alike in the main 

 particulars. They began \\ath crying aloud and profuse shedding of 



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