Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico / by Ales Hrdlicka.

  • Alex Hrdlicka
Date:
1908
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Credit: Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico / by Ales Hrdlicka. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IX. Physiology—Continued. Page Physiological observations on adults 132 Stature 132 Pulse, respiration, and temperature 138 Resum6 of the data shown in the preceding tables, and comparison with whites 141 Muscular force .' 143 Summary of the principal results of instrumental determinations on the adult 152 Further observations 153 The skin and its appendages 153 Special senses 154 Sleep and dreams 154 Mental and nervous powers 155 Varia 155 Digestion 156 Obesity 156 Menstruation (in adults) and climacterium 157 Senility 157 Grayness 159 Loss of hair. 161 X. Notes on social abnormalities 163 Artificial abortion '. 163 Details 163 Artificial sterility ] 65 Infanticide 165 Crime 166 Suicide 171 XI. Medical observations 172 Pathogeny 172 Diseases among the Indians of the Southwest and of northern Mexico. 175 Summary ., 187 Albinism 192 Diseases among Indians in various parts of the United States 197 Albinism '. 198 Goiter 199 Cretinism 201 Insanity 201 Epilepsy 202 Idiocy 204 Deaf and dumb 206 Spinal curvatures 208 Tuberculosis 209 Physicians' notes 213 XII. Indian conception of disease, its prevention and treatment; folk medi- cine and medicine-men 220 Medicine-men 221 Medicine-women 224 Tribal details 224 Prevention 229 Folk medicine 231