CHAPTER IX.

PREVALENT DISEASES.

Medicine-Men--Indifference to the Sick--Great Recuperative Powers after Severe Injuries--The Hot-Stone Treatment--Nostalgic Melancholy-- Ulcers--Solomon Island or Tokelau Ringworm--Very Widely-spread and very Prevalent in the Western Pacific--Has spread Eastward from the Indian Archipelago--Pustular Eruptive Disease of Children--Epidemics of Influenza and Mumps--Elephantiasis--Congenital Deformities-- Venereal Diseases--Susceptibility to Small Falls of Temperature-- Mental Diseases rare pp. 163-179