Medico-legal risks encountered by medical practitioners in the practice of their profession / by John Glaister.

  • Glaister, John, 1856-1932.
Date:
[1886?]
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Credit: Medico-legal risks encountered by medical practitioners in the practice of their profession / by John Glaister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V Note oil the Australian Aborigines hein^/fxhihited in Glasgoio in March, 1SS6. By John Glaister, M.D., F.F.P.S.G., &c., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health, E/oyal Infirmary School of Medicine. [Read before the Soeiet}^ 3rd March, 1886.] The Physical Characters of the native inhabitants of Australia, Tasmania, and the islands in immediate proximity, form a distinct group, having certain differentiating peculiarities, but also having certain affinities to other races. They have high dolichocephalic {i.e., elongated from before backwards), prognathous {i.e., where the upper jaw is visible by looking perpendicularly down upon the skull), and phanero- zygomatic skulls, with an index of breadth 71, and an index of height 73. The nose is narrow at the root, and is very wide at its front part, but is not curved like the Papuan nose. The nostrils are widely expanded. The mouth is large and unshapely, and the lips are thick. The third upper inolar tooth has three roots—a rare thing among Europeans. The hair of the head is long, inclined to curl, and forms a mass upon the top not unlike a crown. In certain parts of Australia—in the peninsula of Coburg—the hair of the head is straight, as is also that of the Mount Shadwell tribe. Mr. E. Palmer, iiadeed, says that generally in the northern tribes, the hair is mostly straight, with an inclination, when clean, to wave j and that the men are bearded. This straightening has been attributed to intermixture with Malay tribes, but this has-been doubted by other observers. The colour of the skin is always dark • it may be quite black, or It may be copper-coloured. The aborigines who are now presented are perfectly black; they are Queenslanders. But even in these tribes the colour varies. For instance, on the river Cloncurry in Queensland, Palmer relates that he saw some reddish-brown in colour. The x,earest in appearance to the Australians and Tasmanians are the Papuans.