Abstract
The following interesting account of aboriginal medical art is just received from Dr. F. Andros. now of Mitchell, Dakota Territory, but formerly well-known and eminent at McGregor, Iowa. Dr. Andros is said to be the grandson of Sir Edmund Andros, the British governor of New York in colonial times. He is now over eighty years of age, but writes a firm hand, and is still actively engaged in practice. He has lived nearly all his adult life in contact with the Indians. Among the Winnebagoes he was a “great medicine man,” and was admitted to the lodge of their secret society, which has its signs and passwords, and is in many respects like some of the secret orders among the whites. Being thus closely intimate with the Indians at a very early day, before they were much modified by contact with civilization, his testimony as to their original medical and
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