 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1891 - 530 pages
...which kept the Indian population down sprang from another source, which has sometimes been neglected. The Indians had no reasonable or efficacious system...every headache, every chill, every fever, every boil, and every wound, in fact, all their ailments, were attributed to such cause. Their so-called medicine... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Foreign Language Study - 1891 - 610 pages
...which kept the Indian population down sprang from another source, which has sometimes been neglected. The Indians had no reasonable or efficacious system...every headache, every chill, every fever, every boil, and every wound, in fact, all their ailments, were attributed to such cause. Their so-called medicine... | |
 | 1891 - 536 pages
...which kept the Indian population down sprang from another source, which has sometimes been neglected. The Indians had no reasonable or efficacious system...every headache, every chill, every fever, every boil, and every wound, in fact, all their ailments, were attributed to such cause. Their so-called medicine... | |
 | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler - Industries - 1894 - 876 pages
...horrible extinction on which sentimental stories have been founded, and from which the fcrce natures theory has been deduced. Undoubtedly, since the Columbian...system of sorcery, and to such superstition human life was sacrificed on an enormous scale. The sufferers were given over to priest-doctors to be tormented,... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - Anthropology - 1899 - 632 pages
...universally attributed to sorcery and other malign influences as amongst the Bantu Negroes themselves. "The Indians had no reasonable or efficacious system...every headache, every chill, every fever, every boil, and every wound, in fact, all their ailments, were attributed to such cause. Their so-called medical... | |
 | Boris Sidis - Medicine, Psychosomatic - 1922 - 390 pages
...quite sufficient to rob it of most of its joys." Professor Powell writes of the Indians: "The Indians believed that diseases were caused by unseen evil...every cough, every toothache, every headache, every fever, every boil and every wound, in fact all their ailments were attributed to such a cause. Their... | |
 | Franz Boas - Foreign Language Study - 1966 - 238 pages
...which kept the Indian population down sprang from another source, which has sometimes been neglected. The Indians had no reasonable or efficacious system of medicine. They believed that diseases were caiised by unseen evil beings and by witchcraft, and every cough, every toothache, every headache,... | |
 | 632 pages
...universally attributed to sorcery and other malign influences as amongst the Bantu Negroes themselves. " The Indians had no reasonable or efficacious system...every headache, every chill, every fever, every boil, and every wound, in fact, all their ailments, were attributed to such cause. Their so-called medical... | |
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The Indians had no reasonable or efficacious system of medicine. They believed that diseases were caused by unseen evil beings and by witchcraft, and every cough, every toothache, every headache, every chill, every fever, every boil, and every wound,... 