Art, healing and local native medicinal plants of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island)

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Buziak, Renata
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2016
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Early Queensland colonists did not have a high opinion of the medicinal skills of the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In an article for The Queenslander in 1916, W. Clarke suggested that there had been no need for them to develop medicinal skills, as in 'early days the blacks were a healthy, virile race; epidemic diseases were unknown among them'.1 Clarke then described the Aboriginal healthcare practices he had witnessed while living in southern Queensland:
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Brisbane Diseased: Contagions, Cures and Controversy
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Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
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