An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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MARRIOTT, Alice Lee

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Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971.

"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western medicine. Primitive societies, in general, cannot conceive of natural death or illness but believe that they are due to supernatural interference. There are two types of "medicines": those with purely physical effects (i.e., to relieve toothache or digestive upsets); and the medicines, "par excellence", that put the medicine man into communication, through a variety of hallucinations, with the malevolent spirits that cause illness and death" (Schultes & Hofman [1992] https://www.peyote.org/, accessed 6-2019)



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Medical Anthropology, Magic & Superstition in Medicine, PSYCHIATRY › Psychopharmacology › History of Psychopharmacology, TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine › Shamanism / Neoshamanism