Tuberculosis Among Certain Indian Tribes of the United States

1909 ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF TUBERCULOSIS IN AMERICAN INDIANS BY SMITHSONIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND EUGENICIST--ANNOTATED COPY OF PROMINENT AMERICAN RACIST STATISTICIAN. 9 inches tall hardcover, olive green cloth binding, bookplate of Frederick L. Hoffman front flyleaf, handstamp of Statisticians' Department, Oct 25, 1912, top of title page, 48 pp, 22 plates, corners bumped, pencil marginal annotations, otherwise very good. ALES HRDLICKA (1869 - 1943) was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. Young Hrdlika attended evening courses to improve his English, and at the age of 18, he decided to study medicine since he had suffered from tuberculosis and experienced the treatment difficulties of those times. In 1889, Hrdlika began studies at Eclectic Medical College and then continued at Homeopatic College in New York. To finish his medical studies, Hrdlika sat for exams in Baltimore in 1894. At first, he worked in the Middletown asylum for mentally affected where he learnt of anthropometry. In 1896, Hrdlika left for Paris, where he started to work as an anthropologist with other experts of then establishing field of science. Between 1898 and 1903, during his scientific travel across America, Hrdlika became the first scientist to spot and document the theory of human colonization of the American continent from east Asia, which he claimed was only some 3,000 years ago. He argued that the Indians migrated across the Bering Strait from Asia, supporting this theory with detailed field research of skeletal remains as well as studies of the people in Mongolia, Tibet, Siberia, Alaska, and Aleutian Islands. The findings backed up the argument which later contributed to the theory of global origin of human species that was awarded by the Thomas Henry Huxley Award in 1927. Ales Hrdlicka founded and became the first curator of physical anthropology of the U.S. National Museum, now the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in 1903. He was the founder of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 1918. More recently, Hrdlicka's methods have come under scrutiny and criticism with regard to his treatment of Native American remains. An AP newswire article, Mexico Indian Remains Returned From NY Museum For Burial from November 17, 2009, recounted his study of Mexico's tribal races, including the beheading of still-decomposing victims of a massacre of Yaqui Indians and removing the flesh from the skulls as part of these studies[11]. He also threw out the corpse of an infant that was found in a cradleboard but forwarded this artifact along with the skulls and other remains to New York's American Museum of Natural History. While these practices are not inconsistent with other ethnographers and human origin researchers of that era, the moral and ethical ramifications of these research practices continues to be debated today. His work has also been linked to the development of American eugenics laws. PROVENANCE: FREDERICK LUDWIG HOFFMAN (1865 - 1946) was an American statistician who showed great foresight on some public health issues, but his work in some areas was biased by his racialist views. Hoffman was educated in the common and private schools in Germany. He was a racist against African Americans in his studies of incarceration. He moved to the United States and became statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America in 1891. He was employed as statistician by many organizations and did research in ethnology and kindred subjects. He also served as President of the American Statistical Association in 1911. A collection of his papers are held at the National Library of Medicine. Pencil annotations in the present volume are consistent with Hoffman's (as well as Hrdlicka's) racist views: The mixed-breeds resulting from regular marriages between the Indians and the whites appear to be freer from tuberculosis than either the full-bloods, or the mixed-breeds due to clandestine unions.

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Year: 1909

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