NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine · Garrison-Morton-Norman

Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1622	Tabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianae descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius praeparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis. Traditional & Indigenous Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	NEANDER, Johann (1596 – 1630)
1672	New-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores… Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Zoology & Animal Sciences Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1672	The American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	HUGHES, William ( – 1683)
1737	The natural history of North Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c. Traditional & Indigenous United States Natural History & Evolution Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BRICKELL, John (1710 – 1745)
1751	Descriptions, virtues, and uses of sundry plants of these northern parts of America, and particularly of the newly discovered Indian cure for the venereal disease. Traditional & Indigenous United States Plagues & Epidemics Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
1763	An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues. Traditional & Indigenous Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	STONE, Edward (1702 – 1768)
1774	An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
1775	The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country.... Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Professions & Education Natural History & Evolution Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	ADAIR, James (1709 – 1793)
1787	Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
1801	The American herbal, or materia medica. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	STEARNS, Samuel (1741 – 1810)
1805–1806	Remarks on the management of the scalped-head. Traditional & Indigenous Military Medicine Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	ROBERTSON, James (1742 – 1814)
1814	Botanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	HENRY, Samuel
1817–1820	American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
1822	New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1822	A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1823	Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them. Traditional & Indigenous United States Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)
1828–1830	Medical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
1836	The Indian vegetable family instructer: Containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. Traditional & Indigenous Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BOWKER, Pierpont F.
1861	The breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man. Traditional & Indigenous ENT & Hearing Arts, Literature & Humanities Zoology & Animal Sciences Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	CATLIN, George (1796 – 1872)
1862	Notes on arrow wounds. Traditional & Indigenous United States Military Medicine Instruments & Devices Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BILL, Joseph Howland (1835 – 1885)
1885	Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885. Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	MATHEWS, Percy W.
1886	Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America. Traditional & Indigenous Anatomy & Pathology Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	WHITNEY, William Fiske (1850 – 1921)
1886	The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886. Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BELL, Robert (1847 – 1917)
1891	Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal. Traditional & Indigenous Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)
1892	The medicine-men of the Apache. Traditional & Indigenous United States Alternative & Fringe Medicine Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)
1900	The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
1908	Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	HRDLIČKA, Aleš (1869 – 1943)
1911	The ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
1915	Ethnobotany of the Zuñi Indians. Thirtieth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	STEVENSON, Matilda Coxe (1849 – 1915)
1916	Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	ROBBINS, Wilfred William (1884 – 1952) HARRINGTON, John Peabody (1884 – 1961) FREIRE-MARRECO, Barbara (1879 – 1967)
1919	Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)
1923	The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	MADDOX, John Lee (1878 – 1946)
1923	Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1928	Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44. Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
1928	Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians. Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1932	Medicine among the American Indians. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )
1932	The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99. Traditional & Indigenous Pharmacology & Therapeutics Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921) OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)
1932	The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	SWANK, George R.
1932	Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians. Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1933	Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1935	The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	CORLETT, William Thomas (1854 – 1948)
1935	The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II. Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Zoology & Animal Sciences Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978) UNDERHILL, Ruth Murray (1883 – 1984)
1936	The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297). Traditional & Indigenous United States Neurology & Psychiatry Pharmacology & Therapeutics Zoology & Animal Sciences Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978) OPLER, Morris Edward (1907 – 1996)
1938	The peyote cult. Traditional & Indigenous Psychology Pharmacology & Therapeutics Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	LA BARRE, Raoul Weston (1911 – 1996)
1939	Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Professions & Education Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936) REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955) HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)
1939	Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	WHITING, Alfred Frank (1912 – 1978)
1940	Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	TAYLOR, Lyda Averill
1941	Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	WYMAN, Leland Clifton (1897 – 1988) HARRIS, Stuart K.
1942	A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	TANTAQUIDGEON, Gladys Lola (1899 – 2005)
1944	Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8. Traditional & Indigenous United States Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	ELMORE, Francis Hapgood

1622 NEANDER, Johann (1596 – 1630)

Tabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianae descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius praeparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis.

Neander described tobacco, its processing, and medical-pharmaceutical use. His book Includes images of the plants, of Indian, Oriental and European types of pipes, as well as depictions of cultivation and processing b…

GMN 9633 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11820

1672 JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)

New-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…

The first detailed account of the natural history and botany of North America, including the first extensive study of native North American medicine.

GMN 1826.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2138

1672 HUGHES, William ( – 1683)

The American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate

The earliest work in English on the medicinal virtues of North American tropical plants. Based on first-hand observations made in the West Indies, Evidence suggests that Hughes began his career in 1651 with a privatee…

GMN 7007 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9173

1737 BRICKELL, John (1710 – 1745)

The natural history of North Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c.

Brickell accompanied provincial governor George Burrington to North Carolina in 1724, remaining in the region for six years and becoming one of the first medical doctors in North Carolina. Brickell took the material o…

GMN 12473 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14706

1751 BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)

Descriptions, virtues, and uses of sundry plants of these northern parts of America, and particularly of the newly discovered Indian cure for the venereal disease.

Bartram founded one of the first botanical gardens in America (at Kingsessing). Linnaeus referred to him as the “greatest natural botanist in the world”. A few copies of this 7-page work printed by Benjamin Franklin w…

GMN 1832 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2171

1763 STONE, Edward (1702 – 1768)

An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.

Stone, a vicar from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, discovered that the bark of the willow tree (active ingredient: salicylic acid) was effective in reducing a fever. This was the first report in the scientific literatu…

GMN 6970 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9135

1774 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)

An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations.

Rush was the first American physician to publish a detailed study of native American medicine. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

GMN 6451.90 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7588

1775 ADAIR, James (1709 – 1793)

The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country....

The author characterized himself on the title page as "a Trader with the Indians and a Resident in their Country for Forty Years." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7505 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9677

1787 SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)

Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.

Schoepff came to America in 1777 as a surgeon with the Hessian troops employed by the British Forces. He returned to Germany in 1784 and compiled the first full American materia medica, describing about 400 plants, in…

GMN 1837 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2194

1801 STEARNS, Samuel (1741 – 1810)

The American herbal, or materia medica.

The first herbal both produced and printed in the United States, as opposed to those which were reprints of European works. Includes information on native American remedies. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage…

GMN 1838.2 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2218

1805 –1806 ROBERTSON, James (1742 – 1814)

Remarks on the management of the scalped-head.

Treatment for the quintessential American war injury suffered by troops and settlers alike on the American frontier.

GMN 2159.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/863

1814 HENRY, Samuel

Botanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.

Henry wrote that he had been a captive of the Indians during the Creek War and that he incorporated what he learned during his captivity. His work was one of the first illlustrated herbals published in the United Stat…

GMN 9641 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11828

1817 –1820 BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)

American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols.

Bigelow was professor of materia medica and botany at Harvard. This work included native American remedies. It was the first book printed in the United States to include color plates printed in color. See R.J. Wolfe, …

GMN 1842 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2280

1822 THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)

New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.

The "Bible" of Thomsonism or "Thomsonian medicine", which employed botanical remedies, often based on native American medicines. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

GMN 6988 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9154

1822 THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)

A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c.

Thomson issued this introductory work shortly before publication of his New Guide. Three issues appeared in 1822: one with 180 pages, another with 182 pages including testimonials, and a 204 page issue with the introd…

GMN 10751 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12947

1823 HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)

Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.

Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of…

GMN 8798 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10976

1828 –1830 RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)

Medical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols.

Rafinesque was a great botanist, conchologist, archaeologist, and economist. Born in a suburb of Istanbul, he was also a world citizen and a prolific writer with 939 works to his credit. He died in extreme poverty in …

GMN 1849 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2331

1836 BOWKER, Pierpont F.

The Indian vegetable family instructer: Containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States.

GMN 9524 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11710

1861 CATLIN, George (1796 – 1872)

The breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man.

Catlin, the famous American artist, was the first in America to call attention to the bad effects of mouth-breathing. He based his book on observations of native American practices, and illustrated his book with humor…

GMN 3267 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3961

1862 BILL, Joseph Howland (1835 – 1885)

Notes on arrow wounds.

The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …

GMN 2166.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1101

1885 MATHEWS, Percy W.

Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.

Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…

GMN 10192 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12381

1886 WHITNEY, William Fiske (1850 – 1921)

Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.

The first American contribution to paleopathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 7708 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9880

1886 BELL, Robert (1847 – 1917)

The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 10191 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12380

1891 BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)

Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.

Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated in to German as: Der Unrat in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben und Gewohnheitrecht der Völker, von John Gregory Bourke. Verdeutscht und ne…

GMN 9888 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12076

1892 BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)

The medicine-men of the Apache.

Bourke, a U.S. Army officer with experience on the American Indian frontier, was a pioneer student of native American medicine and anthropology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6452.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7595

1900 BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)

The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.

"The ʔívil̃uqaletem (or Ivilyuqaletem) are Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California.[2] Their original territory included an area of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2). The traditional Cahuilla te…

GMN 9475 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11659

1908 HRDLIČKA, Aleš (1869 – 1943)

Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6455.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8626

1911 CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)

The ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9347 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11529

1915 STEVENSON, Matilda Coxe (1849 – 1915)

Ethnobotany of the Zuñi Indians. Thirtieth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

GMN 9293 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11475

1916 ROBBINS, Wilfred William (1884 – 1952); HARRINGTON, John Peabody (1884 – 1961); FREIRE-MARRECO, Barbara (1879 – 1967)

Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9346 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11528

1919 GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)

Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.

Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…

GMN 9287 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11469

1923 MADDOX, John Lee (1878 – 1946)

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6456 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7612

1923 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)

Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians.

Digital facsimile from spiritoftherivers.wikispaces.com at this link.

GMN 9294 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11476

1928 DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)

Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9271 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11453

1928 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)

Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.

GMN 9289 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11471

1932 STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )

Medicine among the American Indians.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

GMN 6460 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7621

1932 MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921); OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)

The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7003 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9169

1932 SWANK, George R.

The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.

GMN 9283 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11465

1932 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.

Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.

GMN 9295 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11477

1933 SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)

Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

GMN 9348 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11530

1935 CORLETT, William Thomas (1854 – 1948)

The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 6461 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7623

1935 CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978); UNDERHILL, Ruth Murray (1883 – 1984)

The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.

"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recogniz…

GMN 9303 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11485

1936 CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978); OPLER, Morris Edward (1907 – 1996)

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

GMN 9304 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11486

1938 LA BARRE, Raoul Weston (1911 – 1996)

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

GMN 13291 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15557

1939 MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936); REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955); HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

GMN 6465.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7636

1939 WHITING, Alfred Frank (1912 – 1978)

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

GMN 9323 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11505

1940 TAYLOR, Lyda Averill

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.

GMN 9278 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11460

1941 WYMAN, Leland Clifton (1897 – 1988); HARRIS, Stuart K.

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

GMN 9281 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11463

1942 TANTAQUIDGEON, Gladys Lola (1899 – 2005)

A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.

In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…

GMN 9284 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11466

1944 ELMORE, Francis Hapgood

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

GMN 9282 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11464