Primitive medical art and primitive medicine-men of Australia / by L.P. Winterbotham
- Bib ID:
- 355271
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Winterbotham, L. P. (Lindsey Page)
- Description:
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- Sydney : Australasian Medical Publishing Co., [1951?]
- 8 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Summary:
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General information about medicine men mainly abstracted from the literature; Port Keats material original; native remedies used in Queensland, Murray - Darling, Port Keats; medicine men in Central Australia, New England; birth at Port Keats; conception beliefs and burial in Wik-and-iti tribes of west Cape York; circumcision and subincision.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- At head of title: The Jackson lecture.
- "Reprinted from the Medical Journal of Australia, March 31, 1951, page 461"
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Initiation - Circumcision
- Reproduction - Childbirth
- Initiation - Subincision
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Wik people (Qld SD54)
- Reproduction - Conception
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
- New England (NSW N Coast SH56-06, SH56-10)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Wadeye / Port Keats (Daly River NT Top End SD52-11)
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Also Titled:
- Jackson lecture
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1951
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