essay
Contacts between Iroquois herbalism and colonial medicine
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operation, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ended June 30, 1941 • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1942 • Pages: 503-526 , plates
By: Fenton, William N. (William Nelson).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is primarily concerned with the treatment of illness and bodily injury by the Iroquois. There are also data on the contact between the Iroquois and early settlers in which European medicinal plants were introduced to and became part of the material medica of the Iroquois, and vice versa. Some incidental information is also provided on the early historical contact period, the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries, varieties of disease common among the Iroquois, and a list of plants with their scientific names that were used in native medicine.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Medical therapy
- Ethnobotany
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iroquois
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1964-1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933-1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- not specified, United States and Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- William N. Fenton
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquois Indians