Medicine in Louisiana

Images
These images are representative of the evolution of Louisiana’s medical history and forms of treatment, from the early Native Americans through the nineteenth century.  They are taken from John Duffy, ed., The Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana, vol. 1 (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press for the Rudolph Matas Trust Fund, 1958), plate 2, plate 8; vol. 2, plate 3, plate 9.

 

Healing among the Timucua Indians.  Different methods of native healing are demonstrated in this image, including, at left, a medicine man sucking blood out of a patient.  On the right, a patient’s head is fumigated with fire and herbs to induce vomiting; in the rear, a man smokes “tapaco” to dissolve ‘evil humors.’ 

 

 

Medical fee billTuesday, July 19, 2005 5:47 PMi>, February 7, 1824. 

New Orleans School of Medicine

Opening Announcement. 

 

Medical Fee Schedule in French, issued by the Société Médicale. 

 


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