. St. Louis courier of medicine . ofeagle plumes has given way to the unromantic felt hat—the tomahawk and bow and arrow to the revolver andbreech-loading rifle—so are the original obstetric customs,traditionary among the red people for ages, yielding to theintiuence of civilization: the few warlike tribes, who stillretain the ways of their ancestors, are rapidly dying out;those who have quietly settled down upon the reserva-tion are accepting the habits of the whites, and their par-turient squaws are delivered as they have been taught by t 386 Original Articles. [May, 1882. the agency-physici
. St. Louis courier of medicine . ofeagle plumes has given way to the unromantic felt hat—the tomahawk and bow and arrow to the revolver andbreech-loading rifle—so are the original obstetric customs,traditionary among the red people for ages, yielding to theintiuence of civilization: the few warlike tribes, who stillretain the ways of their ancestors, are rapidly dying out;those who have quietly settled down upon the reserva-tion are accepting the habits of the whites, and their par-turient squaws are delivered as they have been taught by t 386 Original Articles. [May, 1882. the agency-physician or the army-surgeon; in fact, primi-tive obstetric customs are so speedily passing away thatmore than one of the agency-physicians answered withsome surprise to the circular, kindly sent among them forme by the Smithsonian Institute, that he had observednothing peculiar; that the squaws of the tribe were deliv-ered on the back, and their habits were the same as thoseof their white sisters. Many of the tribes, nevertheless,. Fig. 1—Kiowa Labor. still retain their peculiar customs, but all of my informantsunite in the statement that it is very difficult to obtain anyinformation from them upon these points. It is rare thatmen are permitted to witness, or even be near a laborscene; and white physicians are not called in unless it be,a desperate case. Indians are moreover very reticent uponthis point and very unwilling to impart any informationregarding their women or the functions peculiar to them; Exgelmanx.] Labor Scenes Among the Med Races. 387 this is strange, too, as they are by no means a modestpeople. There are many points of resemblance in the obstetriccustoms of the various Indian tribes, and in many featuresthey differ. The kneeling posture, for instance, is the onemost commonly assumed by the squaw in labor, and yetamong certain tribes almost all the other positions can befound, though rarely that upon the lap of the husband;this is a trouble and indignity which
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