. St. Louis courier of medicine . considerable number of other squaws of all a-esthronged around, making suggestions, talking, singing,groaning and gesticulating, but no men came near. She never assumed the recumbent position, nor did theassistant make any attempt at vaginal examination. Therewas no great effort on her part to restrain the feeling orsubmit patiently to suffering, and the throng of women in-side and out kept up a continual noise and clatter. Mean- Engelmann.] Labor Scenes Among the Red Races. 395 time the chief medicine man of the tribe in a neighboringlodge was making strenuou
. St. Louis courier of medicine . considerable number of other squaws of all a-esthronged around, making suggestions, talking, singing,groaning and gesticulating, but no men came near. She never assumed the recumbent position, nor did theassistant make any attempt at vaginal examination. Therewas no great effort on her part to restrain the feeling orsubmit patiently to suffering, and the throng of women in-side and out kept up a continual noise and clatter. Mean- Engelmann.] Labor Scenes Among the Red Races. 395 time the chief medicine man of the tribe in a neighboringlodge was making strenuous exertions to help the patientby means which I was not permitted to see, but which couldbe plainly heard going on incessantly. The ceremony wasperformed alone in a closed lodge, with fire, and consisted,so far as I know, in drumming, singing, shouting, dancing,running round the fire, jumping over it, manoeuvring withknives, and the like antics. Medicine making of this sortis very common among thelndians, and is always conducted. Fig. 3.—Kiowa midwife blowing an emetic into patients mouth. with great solemnity and seriousness, and with full faithin its effect. The rationale is based on the idea that dis-ease is an evil spirit entering the patient, and must by somemagic influence be coaxed, scared or driven out. The in-ternal administration of medicine, excepting emetics, is sel-dom practiced, and emetics are scrupulously avoided incases of labor, owing to the direction in which they in the midst of a vast amount of sheer nonsense they 396 Original Articles. [May, 1882. possess some good practical ideas, such as the buffalo hairpessary worn with benefit by many women, the hot stone inlabor, which is sometimes modified into a steam bath bycovering the shelter tightly with skins and pouring wateron the stone. At a former confinement of the patient, apractical application had been made of the effect of fear inrouting the child from its lodging place. She was broughtout on
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