. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. 385 Before finally leaving Thevet's book we give his account of native medical practice. The line of treatment adopted on the advice of the medicine men—' prophetes' as he calls them,—would in itself, suffice to explain the wide spread of a contagious disorder. ' The foolishe opinion of the wilde men in their propin ts and of their diseases. These prophets make them to beleve that they do speake unto spirites and soules of their parentes, and that nothyng. Photo by Donald Macbeth, London. Fig. i to them is impossible, also that they ca
. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. 385 Before finally leaving Thevet's book we give his account of native medical practice. The line of treatment adopted on the advice of the medicine men—' prophetes' as he calls them,—would in itself, suffice to explain the wide spread of a contagious disorder. ' The foolishe opinion of the wilde men in their propin ts and of their diseases. These prophets make them to beleve that they do speake unto spirites and soules of their parentes, and that nothyng. Photo by Donald Macbeth, London. Fig. i to them is impossible, also that they can cause the soule to speake within the bodie.' (Note 12.) ' Moreover when soever any syche man feeleth his stomache to swelle by the occasions of some humours in the stomacke and liver, the whyche by debilitie or otherwyse he cannot cast or vomite up, he thinketh that it is his soule that complaineth. Now these goodly Note 12.—An interesting account of the beliefs of the American Indians in their medicine men, closely parallel to the narrative of Thevet, may be found in Francis Parkman's ' Jesuits in North America,' Toronto and London, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Liverpool University Press [etc. ]
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