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Mexican and Soutliwi'titcru Indians: NoU-t! on plants yielding alcoliDlic litinors, 

 those yielding stimulating, exhilarating, or intoxicating principles other than alcohol, 

 and those furnishing juices t)r, by infusion, pleasant beverages, more or less used to 

 quench thirst. 



Hefferman, W. T. Medicine among the Yuuias. Cal. Med. Jour., San Fran., iSOd, 

 xvii, 135-140. 

 Notes on Yuma medicine-men and treatment; but few details. No data on 

 diseases. 



HoFFM.\N, Walter James. The practice of medicine and surgery by the aboriginal 

 races of the Southwest. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 187!), xl, 157-1^0. 



The aboriginal medicine-man. West. Lancet, San Fran., 1882, xi, 430, 443. 



Sioux, with notes on other tribes: medicine-men and medicine-women, labor and 



first attentions to the child, notions of disease, head deformation. 



The Mide^wiwin or "Grand Medicine society" of the Ujilnva. 7tli Rep. 



B. A. E., 1885-6, 143-300, Wash., 1891. 



Detailed description of the society, and of the healers who compose it, and their 

 methods. Numerous citations from other writers. 



■ — Pictography and shamanistic rites of the ()jil)wa. Anier. Anthroj)., Wash., 



1888, I, 209-229. 

 Notes on the Ojil^wa medicine society and healers. 



Shamanistic practices. Univ. Med. Mag., Phila., 1890-91, in, 73-79. 



Ojibwa, with notes on other tribes: Notions of disease, medicine-men, societies, 

 treatment, medicines, sweat baths, abortion, surgery, self-mutilation, snake bites. 



The Menomini Indians. 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1892-3, pt. 1, 3-328, Wash., 



1896. 



Includes observations on population, medicine-men and medicine societies, sports, 

 food, tobacco. 



Holder, A. B. The age of puberty of Indian girls. Anier. Jour. Ubstets., N. Y., 

 1890, XXIII, 1074. 



Observations on 7 full-l:)lood and 3 half-breed Crow girls of known age. Menstruation 

 began at from 10| to 14i years. 



Gynecic notes taken among the American Indians. Il)id., 1892, xxv, 752; 



XXVI, 41. 



Notes on puberty and menstruation (including (he data given in the last preceding 

 publication). 



Measurements (weight, height, chest girth, waist girth, hip girth) of 33 Crow girls 

 antl young women of from 12 to 25 years of age; too heterogeneous. 



Notes on artificial al)ortion, especially among the Crows. 



Labor — brief notes. 



Remarks, not sufficiently substantiated, on increase of Indian population. 



Venereal diseases — many reports of interest; also perst)nal observations. 

 Papers on diseases among Indians. Med. Rec, N. Y., 1892, xlii. 177, 329, 357. 



Indians (Western) in general: Effects on health of changes in climate and habits; 

 dress, dwelling, diet; reports on syphilis, scrofula, consumption; reports on other 

 diseases; surgery; vitiligo, harelip, gray hair, bald heads; intoxicants; medicine 

 and medicine-men; the sweat house. 



Hough, Walter. The Hopi in relation to their plant environment. Amer. 

 Anthrop., Wash., 1897, x, 33-44. 



Gives a list of food and medicine plants, with brief notes on their uses. 

 Hrdlicka, Ales. A new joint formation. Amer. Anthrop., Wash., 1899, n. s., i, 550- 

 551. 



