Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Medicine Practices of the Northeastern AlgonquiansNative pharmacopeia from different parts of North America shows that the therapeutic qualities of herbs are recognized quite generally among the Indians. Among the eastern tribes, however, methods of treatment of disease, entirely independent of shamanism, are very characteristic, and these are to be discussed in this paper.While I am not in a position to discuss the actual pathological values of the medicinal agents presented in the lists, I feel sure that the herb remedies of the tribes of the northeast will be found to show approximately the same proportion of actually beneficial to ineffective, or even contrary acting nostrums, as in the case of the Cherokee, whose medicines have been discussed by Mooney.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.