Tuberculosis Among Certain Indian Tribes of the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tuberculosis Among Certain Indian Tribes of the United States Of the spread of the disease through the remaining tribes but little is known until we come down into the nineteenth century. As late as 1794 such an authority as Dr. Benjamin Rush, whose knowledge was probably limited to the eastern Indians south of Canada and New England, states that tuberculosis is unknown among the Indians in North America. Similar reports will be found in the Bibliography. By the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century, however, the disease was certainly widely disseminated, though still rare, according to Long, Hunter, Morton, and others, among the Indians of the Central states and the Missouri valley. Before the century closed it existed in all parts of the country, and at the present time no tribe in the whole of North America is exempt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.