History of Biomedicine - Indigenous Cultures

Maps of Ancient Earth (510 - 50 million years ago) - Dinosauria On-Line
Early Human Phylogeny - Smithsonian (US)
How Humans Evolved [online book; P Park et al.] - University of Illinois (US)
Human Prehistory: An Exhibition - (GR)
On the Physical Characteristics of Humans - Washington State Univ.
About Homo Erectus [J Sept]
Hunger and Fear [R Gore] - Nat'l Geographic
The Human Origins and Evolution in Africa [J Sept] - U of Indiana (US), and Becoming Human - Institute of Human Origins
About the Toba catastrophe theory [SH Ambrose] - via Bradshaw Foundation
Paleovegetation Maps (since the last glacial max.) [J Adams]
Neanderthal Museum [G-C Weniger, in German] - (DE), and some pathological aspects of Neanderthal skeletons - Wikipedia
'Venus of Willendorf' [ca. 20 - 22,000 B.C.; CLCE Witcombe]
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigacion de Altamira [in Spanish/English] - (ES)
The Cave of Lascaux, and the Cave Paintings at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc - French Ministry of Culture.
Signs of Consciousness (paleopsychological speculations) [A Cheyne] - (CA)
Paleopatologia.it (in Italian)
Medical Views on Prehistoric Representations of Human Hands [PA Janssens] - Med Hist, Oct 1957, via PubMedCentral
The Paleolithic Diet Page
Origins & Evolution of Human Diet - ICAES
Stomach Ulcers' Prehistoric Origins Uncovered - Med News Today, Feb 2007
Remains of world's oldest human brain found in Armenia - via the Stone Pages (IT)
Stone age skull surgery in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [Piek et al.; abstract only] - Neurosurgery 1999, via PubMed
The Iceman's Last Meal [B Fowler] - NOVA, and a Peek into the Iceman's Prehistoric Medicine Kit [J Wilford]
Prehistoric Medicine - Wikipedia
On Primitive Medicine - Dodd Memorial Library, CMC Vellore
On Primitive Medicine [AS Lyons] - HealthGuidance
Medicine in Prehistoric Times [ppt slides] - HealthGuidance
Notes on Prehistoric Medicine - via Tiscali (UK)
Rock Art [links]
Internet African History Sourcebook [P Halsall]
Old African Civilizations [R Hooker] - Washington State Univ.
Issues in African History [J Giblin] - Univ of Iowa (US)
On Yoruba Medicine - Wikipedia
Art That Heals: The Images as Medicine in Ethiopia - Univ of Iowa (US)
To Cure and Protect: Sickness and Health in African Art , past exhibit at US Nat'l Museum of Health & Medicine
About Laiboni: diviners, ritual experts and medicine men (in the Maasai society)
Brief Note on Witch doctors in Africa - (ZA)
Fetichism in West Africa [R Hamill Nassau] - Sacred Texts
Voodoos and Obeahs [JJ Williams] - Sacred Texts
Voodoo Medicine Still Going Strong: A Tale of Melanoma, Faith, and Failure [Beyeler et al.]( subscription required for full access) - Arch Dermatol, Jan 2008
Primitive Medicine and Folklore - Encyclopedia Britannica
On the Origin of Medicine [W Osler; 1923 printing] - Etext Center, Univ of Virginia (US)
About Aboriginal Spirituality and Dreamtime - aboriginalaustralia.com, and Healing Secrets of Aboriginal Bush Medicine - (AU)
Early Images of the Australian Aborigines - Monash (AU)
Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia
About Some Old Medicinal Plants - Australian Nat'l Botanic Garden
Use of Insects by Australian Aborigines [R. Cherry]
Beetles as Religious Symbols [Y Cambefort]
Remedies, Rumors, Cures [marine products] - Ocean Planet, Smithsonian Inst (US)
Snake Mythology - University of Massachusetts (US)
Plant Trivia Timeline (from a botanist's viewpoint) - Huntington Botanical Gardens
Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen - Missouri Botanical Garden (US)
On Traditional Medicine - WHO/Western Pacific
A brief outline of the History of Herbalism [C Hobbs] - HealthWorld
American Indian Ethnobotany Database [D Moerman] - Univ of Michigan
Intertooth Patterns of Hypoplasia Expression: Implications for Child Health in the Classic Maya Collapse [LE Wright], 1997
Native Health Databases (North American indigenous peoples) - Univ of New Mexico
Natural Products as Medicinally Useful Agents [AT Sneden]
Spices - exotic flavors and medicines - UCLA (US)
Medicinal Herb Garden - University of Washington (US)
Dictionary of Botanical Epithets [C Griffith]
Online Archive of American Folk Medicine - UCLA (US)
About Vagina Dentata - Wikipedia
Searching for Folk Medicine [enter 'folk medicine' in search box] against the NewCrop Plant Database at Purdue (US)
Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages [JL Matterer]
Ferns and Man in New Guinea [JR Croft] - (AU)
A Modern Herbal [M Grieve; 1931] - Botanical.Com (US)
Herbals: Therapeutic and Adverse Effects [bibliography Jul 2000; VM Hudson]
A Herbal Encyclopedia - NaturalArk
Folk Medicine in Texas - The Handbook of Texas (US)
Ozarkian and Haitian Folk Medicine [B Thomas-Stevenson]
Phytochemical & Ethnobotanical Databases [J Duke] - ARS (US)
Traditional (Native American) Indian Medicine Treatment of Chronic Illness [LE Mehl-Madrona]
Pharmacognosy links - The American Society of Pharmacognosy
The Chemistry of Garlic Health Benefits - HealthWorld
On the History of Aloe Vera
The Wealth of the Rainforest - Pharmacy to the World
About some Medicinal Plants in Eastern Peru
On "Pre-Columbian Surgery" [O Fernandez]
Cranial Surgery in Ancient Mesoamerica [V Tiesler Blos]
On the History of Brain Surgery [Mangiardi and Kane] - Aesculap
Trephination, an ancient surgery - Oral Sciences, Univ of Illinois/Chicago
On Pre-Columbian Trephination [CA Philips] - AANS (US)
About Hallucinogenic Mushrooms - Sputnik Psilocybe Mushroom FAQs
A Mummy Locator [JM Deem]
Life and Death in Ancient Mexico
About Lophophora williamsii (Peyote) - Wikipedia
Traditional Healing in the Arctic Region - NLM (US)
On The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge [about the Tukano, Kuna and Iñupiat societies; archived material]
About Folk Medicine in Hispanics in SW U.S. [N Neff]
Crow Creek Massacre Paleopathology [JB Gregg] - (US)
On Health & Disease in the New World [M Micozzi] - via Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania (US)
"Death by Disease" [A F Ramenofsky; reprint] - Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania (US)
Depopulation of American natives from disease - Wikipedia
Medicine in the Americas (historical works) - History of Medicine Div., NLM /US)
Native American Knowledge [KM Strom]
US 19th-century Doctors' Thoughts about Native American Medicine - NLM (US)
Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas [DL Ashliman] - Univ. of Pittsburg (US)
On the Origin of the Werewolf Legend (Lycantrophy) [S Nur-Ul-Alam]
Germania [Tacitus 1st century AD] - Medieval Source Book (P Halsall)
The Religion of the North - Hrafnar
Havamal [transl. into English] - via Univ of Pittsburgh
Did Egil Skalla-Grimson suffer from Paget's Disease? [JL Byock]
The SagaNet (Icelandic medieval literature) - (IS)
On the History and Origin of the Runes
A picture of Henbane Hyoscyamus Niger - Nordens Flora/Project Runeberg (SE)
Om Kisamor [D Malmsten] (in Swedish)
Bulfinch's Mythology [T Bulfinch / B Fisher]
To what extent is modern medical theory and practice influenced by its more primitive forms? [M Wischik]
WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region

Tor Ahlenius