Practice of medicine and surgery by the Canadian tribes in Champlain's time . it s. :^^m:^M. Head Chief of Petun Shamans. malaJv, the origin of which he was unable to explain, he sent for the shaman tolearn tlie cause of his sickness and to avert its evil effects. The Shamax as a Medicine-man. The universal opinion among the Canadian tribes, from ocean to ocean, thatall diseases or ailments which failed to yield to ordinary treatment were causedh\ an imp or imps which had entered and settled in some part or parts of man or woman induced them to turn to those who claimed to have powert
Practice of medicine and surgery by the Canadian tribes in Champlain's time . it s. :^^m:^M. Head Chief of Petun Shamans. malaJv, the origin of which he was unable to explain, he sent for the shaman tolearn tlie cause of his sickness and to avert its evil effects. The Shamax as a Medicine-man. The universal opinion among the Canadian tribes, from ocean to ocean, thatall diseases or ailments which failed to yield to ordinary treatment were causedh\ an imp or imps which had entered and settled in some part or parts of man or woman induced them to turn to those who claimed to have powerto expel these imps. This power the shaman, autmoin or medicine-man of thetribe was supposed to possess. We are not now concerned to know by what means—fastings, isolations, macerations and communings with spirits—he obtained hisinfluence. We know he professed, like Owen Glendower, to have power overspirits, and his tribesmen admitted his claim. The shaman was no fool. It istrue he was part quack, part doctor and imposter, and was generally an expertjuggler and sleight-of-hand man. Am
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