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"Very malignant typhus, or ship fever," introduced by a ship from the south. 

 A note on deafness and Ijlindness among the Indians. 



Pepper, G. H. An unusual Navajo medicine ceremony. Southern Workman, 

 1904; reprint, Hampton, Va., 1905, pp. 1-10. 



A popular account of two ceremonial procedures employed by a Navaho medicine- 

 man for the cure of a sore throat. 



PiORRY, P. A. Medecine des peuples sauvages. Diet. d. sci. med., Paris, 1819, 

 XXXI, 463-476. 

 Nothing original or of special value. 

 Pitcher, Z. Medicine (Indian). Schoolcraft's Arch., Phila., 1854, iv, 502-519. 



Plains and eastern tribes: Diseases, knowledge of anatomy, pathology, remedies, 

 surgery, snake bites, obstetrics, sweat baths. 



Porter, J. H. Notes on the artificial deformation of children among savage and 

 civilized peoples, with a bibliography. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886-7, 213-235, 

 Wash., 1889. 

 Includes notes on occipital flattening (incidental). Numerous quotations from 

 earlier writers on Indians. 



Powers, S. Aboriginal botany. Proc. Cal. Acad. Soc, 1873-4, v, 373-379; also in 

 his Tribes of California, Cont. North Amer. EthnoL, Wash., 1877, in, 419-431. 

 Mainly Neshinam Indians, Bear river, Cal., and Yokuts, Tule River reservation, 

 Cal. Gives a large number of vegetal substances and their uses (food, medicine, 

 etc.). Knowledge of anatomy (p. 379). 



In the Tribes of California are also observations on dwellings, food, clothing, habits, 

 crime, medicine, medicine-men, sweat baths, morals, parturition, the aged, height 

 and weight ot a large number of the California natives. 



Prentiss, D. W., F. P. Morgan, and James Mooney. Mescal buttons. Detroit, 

 1896; reprint from Therapeut. Gaz., Detroit, 1896, 3 s., xii. 

 Physiological action and therapeutic uses; ceremonial uses under different names 

 (peyote, hicori, etc.) among the Indians. 



Ranke, K. E. Einige Beobachtungen u. d. Sehschiirfe bei siidamerikanischen 

 Indianern. Cor.-Bl. d. deutsch. Gesellsch. f. Anthrop. (etc.), Munich, 1897, 

 XXVIII, 113-119. 

 Tests on Bakairi Indians of central Brazil. No special natural superiority found. 



Ueber d. Hautfarbe d. siidamerikanischen Indianer. Zeitschr. f. EthnoL, 



Berlin, 1898, xxx, 61-73. 

 A somewhat detailed examination into the color of some South American Indians. 

 A plate shows the colors observed. 



Reagan, A. B. Concerning left-handed aborigines. Science, June 7, 1907, 909. 

 Found among a population of 231 Hoh and other Quileute Indians 5 (4 men, 1 

 woman) left-handed. 



Rose, J. N. Notes on useful plants of Mexico. Cont. U. S. Nat. Herbar., Wash., 

 1899, V, no. 4, 209-259. 

 Notes on several native foods (maize, chile, beans), on native fruits, and on bev- 

 erage plants; also on medicinal plants sold in Mexican towns. Gives common 

 native names and identifications. Touches but indirectly and in a general way on 

 Indians. 



RuDo Ensayo. Anonymous. San Augustin de la Florida, 1863 ; also translation into 

 English by E. Guiteras, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of 

 Phila., 1894, v, no. 2. 

 Many observations of medical interest; remedies, foods, drinks, particularly among 

 the Opata, about 1762. 



