Research Catalog

Title

Medical history of New Zealand prior to 1860 / L. K. Gluckman.

Author

Gluckman, L. K.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Gluckman, 1976.

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Description

271 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This book developed accidentally from the compilation of notes incidental to other researches over many years. It covers the medical history of European medicine in New Zealand, the effects of European culture contact on Maori health and the history of individual diseases in the Maori in this period. The book, written in lay language should help the intending doctor understand many of his future Polynesian patients and their problems. The student of liberal studies and the interested layman will find much of interest in the medical problems confronting settler and Maori in early New Zealand. Makutu - disease of reputed supernatural origin - is surveyed in relation to modern medical practice and reveals the substantial gap between Maori and Pakeha that is still not rarely encountered. The final illness of Governor Hobson casts doubt as to his stability. There is abundant evidence he suffered brain disease and probably committed suicide. What would have been the ultimate effect on Maori health had the three suggestions to establish medical schools in the period been acted on? What was the effect of missionaries refusing to treat sexual disorders? When was "poisonous gas" used against the Maori? What was the effect of the abolition of cannibalism on the Maori health? What was the early Maori attitude to alcohol? Did the European want the Maori to survive? These and many related topics are discussed.

Alternative Title

• Tangiwai, a medical history of 19th century New Zealand.
• Tangiwai

Subject

• Medicine > New Zealand > History
• Physicians > history
• Hospitals > history
• Phytotherapy > history
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases > history
• Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• Title on spine: Tangiwai, a medical history of 19th century New Zealand.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Include: Captain Cook, scurvy, Cook's doctors -- The French and New Zealand's medical history prior to 1843 -- Early days -- Early days : military medicine to 1845 -- Early days : the first hospital -- Disease of the Moriori -- Diseases of the pre-European Maori -- Longevity and the ancient Maori -- Evolution of the Tohunga, Cook on steam baths, Colenso on botanicals, Best on botanicals , Cruise and Rutherford on wounds -- The evolution of herbal pharmacopoeia in New Zealand -- Impact of the European on Maori health -- Obstetrics, gynaecology, pediatrics -- Infanticide and cannibalism -- Venereal disease -- Tuberculosis -- Leprosy in New Zealand -- Gout and rheumatic disease -- Skin disease, hygiene, cataract -- Substitutes for alcohol (Masticatories, Kawa, Tutu, Introduction of fermentation) -- A history of alcoholism in the Maori and why he did not drink -- A history of insanity in Maori -- Makutu : a link between ancient and modern Maori.

OCLC

6995851

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library