Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico . HRDLicKA] PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS 157 outdoor life to the present state of not a little indolence which is theprime cause of their obesity. Among the Mexican Indians throughout the region covered highergrades of stoutness have not been encountered. MENSTRUATION (iN ADULTS) AND CLIMACTERIUM The menses in Indian women differ in principal characteristics andduration but little, if at all, from those in healthy whites (see also underObservations on children). Scanty or very p
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of southwestern United States and northern Mexico . HRDLicKA] PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS 157 outdoor life to the present state of not a little indolence which is theprime cause of their obesity. Among the Mexican Indians throughout the region covered highergrades of stoutness have not been encountered. MENSTRUATION (iN ADULTS) AND CLIMACTERIUM The menses in Indian women differ in principal characteristics andduration but little, if at all, from those in healthy whites (see also underObservations on children). Scanty or very profuse or habitually pain-ful menstruation is heard of much less often among the Indianthan among the American white women. At San Carlos the writermet a healthy Apache multipara who menstruated regularly andquite profusely eight to ten days every month, but there were gen-erally no severe pains or any serious after effects. The menstruating woman is generally to some extent tabued, andfor this reason mainly remains about the house; but she observes nospecial precautions.* There are no clear notions as
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