An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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HUNTER, John Dunn

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Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.

Philadelphia: Printed and Published for the Author, by J. Maxwell, 1823.

Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of his prowess in the chase. Although he lived with the Cherokee until about 1816, he received a fairly good education and traveled considerably through the United States and England.  Chapter 14: "Residence, dress, painting, food, dseases, treatment of the sick, disposal of the dead, mournings, &c." Chapter 15: "Observations on the materia medica of the Indians." Chapter 16: "Observations on the Indian practice of surgery and medicine." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American West, NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine