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THIS publication is a bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution), and comprises the result of observations among a large number of Indian tribes. It will prove a mine of useful information to those interested in anthropology, but, like the publications of most Government institutions, is hardly written in a manner to make it interesting to the general reader. It contains, for instance, nearly 200 pages of statistical tables. Its title—physiological and medical observations—is justified because the data collected include what is so often missing in books on ethnology, details not only of size, stature, date of puberty, rate of pulse, muscular development, and so forth, but also statistics relating to prevalent diseases and native methods of treatment. Not the least attractive feature of the work is a series of twenty-eight beautiful plates, which illustrate the physiognomy and dwellings of the native races, as well as other points interesting to those who study folk-lore.
Physiological and Medical Observations among the Indians of South-western United States and Northern Mexico.
By Ale Hrdlika. Pp. ix+460. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908.)
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Physiological and Medical Observations among the Indians of South-western United States and Northern Mexico . Nature 80, 126 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080126c0
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