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Title: Practice of medicine and surgery by the Canadian tribes in Champlain's time
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Harris, William Richard, 1847-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: (Toronto) : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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with fa\<ir and reslnrc him to health.—.Tesnit Rel.Vol. .10, ot. Sei;mi:i)ii:s and Matimma Medica of tiii; TiniiKs. Primitive man. or the man n\ naturt, was liv his occaipation ainl cnv iionmtnta liealtliy man and. nnUss killed hy accident or in battle, the Indian generallylived to an advanced age.* Detornied children, or idiots were alnio>l unknownamong the trihes. Their women never perished in child-birth, and sniTered verylittle in parturition. Four hours after the birth of her child the mother was readyfor lier ordinary duties. The men were hardened by exposure to all kinds ofweather, and by hunting and lishing. whieli protected them against disease anilgave them remarkable recuperative powers when attacked by any malady. Their active life in the open air saved them from heart and kidney diseases,from appendicitis and many other maladies to which civilized man is and alwayswill be a victim. MoreiAcr. aboriginal man of Canada knew nothing of alcohol,
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Shaman Exorcising an Oki. of condiments, spices, or opiates. He was not a salt user. The Southern, Mexicanand Central American tribes were able to distil alcohol from the maguey andfrom other plants, but the Canadian Indian had not the material fr^m wdiich hecould manufacture intoxicating liquor, and, as a beneficent result, he was necessarilya sober man and protected from alcoholic disease. But the Canadian savage wasnot altogether immune to disease, to plagues and epidemics. John Josselyn, inhis Account of Two Voyages to Xew England, writing (1674) of the maladiesto which the Indians of Xew England were subject, says: In Xew England theIndians are afflicted with pestilent fever, plagues, consumption of lungs, falling *Even as late as 1884 there were living on the Reservation, near Brantford, threemen who were companions of the Mohawk, Joseph Brant (Thayendangea). One ofthese men, John Smoke Johnson, attained the age of 94. Jacoh Warner was 93, andthe other, John Tutela, was 92 when

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