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Rush, B. An oration .... containing an enquiry into the natural history of medi- 

 cine among the Indians in North America, and a comparative view of their diseases 

 and remedies with those of civilized nations. Phila., 1774. Also in his Medical 

 Inquu-ies and Observations, Phila., 1789, 9-56; 2d Amer. ed., Phila., 1794, 9-77, 

 Indians between 30° and 60"^ of latitude: Birth and treatment of children, diet, 

 customs peculiar to sexes, deformities (none, p. 19), diseases, remedies. A few facts 

 of a general nature, with some speculation. 



Russell, Frank. An Apache medicine dance. Amer. Anthrop., Wash., 1898, xi, 

 367-372. 



Jicarilla Apache : A description of an elaborate ceremonial cure by a medicine- 

 woman. 



The Pima Indians. 26th Rep. B. A, E., 1904-5, 3-389, Wash., 1908. 



Includes notes on food supply (with data on medicinal plants), architecture, cloth- 

 ing, athletic sports, relations before marriage, marriage, children, medicine-men, 

 legerdemain, cause, prevalence, and treatment of diseases, medicine songs. 

 Schoolcraft, H. R. Introductory remarks on magic, witchcraft, and dsemonology 

 of the American Indians. Schoolcraft's Arch., Phila., 1853, iii, 483^94. 

 Includes notes on magic, etc., of healers. See also Schoolcraft's notes on the Iro- 

 quois, N. Y., 1848, and The American Indians, rev. ed., Buffalo, 1851. 

 Sharp, G. The civilization and medicine of the less advanced American Indian 



races. Med. Mag., Lond., 1899, n. s., viii, 79, 346. 

 Shufeldt, R. W. Head flattening as seen among the Navaho Indians. Pop. Sci. 

 Month., N. Y., 1891, xxxix, 535-539. 

 The deformation is not due to strapping of the head or to intentional application 

 of pressure to the child's occiput. 



Simpson, J. K. Midwifery among the Alaskan Indians. Occidental Med. Times, 

 Sacramento, 1892, vi, 61. 

 Brief description of labor and of treatment of new-born among the natives of 

 southeastern Alaska. 



Smallpox, The; a scourge to the aborigines. Schoolcraft's Arch., Phila., 1851, i, 

 257-258. 

 An account of an epidemic of the disease among the natives of the Missouri valley 

 in 1837. 



Sorcery and medical magic (Remarks on the practice of) by the Indian priesthood. 

 Schoolcraft's Arch., Phila., 1855, v, 415-441. 

 Chippewa, Choctaw: Account of practices of the medicine-men. 

 Squier, E. G. Incidents of travel and exploration in the land of the Incas. N. Y., 

 1877. 

 Includes note on a trephined skull from an Inca cemetery. 

 Steinmetz, S. R. Suicide among primitive peoples. Amer. Anthrop., Wash., 1894, 

 vn, 53-60. 

 Includes data on suicide among the Eskimo and Indians. Bibliographical ref- 

 erences. 

 Stephen, A. M. The Navaho. Amer. Anthrop., Wash., 1893, vi, 345-362. 



Contains observations on dwellings, dress, mode of life, marriage, tabus, notions 

 and treatment of disease, sweat house. 



Stevenson, James. Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and mythical sand painting of 

 the Navajo Indians. 8th Rep. B. A. E., 1886-7, 229-285, Wash., 1891. 

 Description of one of the great Navaho healing ceremonies. 

 Stevenson, Matilda Coxe. The Sia. 11th Rep. B. A. E., 1889-90, 3-157, Wash., 

 1894. 

 Includes observations on healing ceremonies and childbirth. 



