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dc.contributor.authorBuziak, Renata
dc.contributor.editorA. Piper
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-29T00:51:39Z
dc.date.available2018-08-29T00:51:39Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.isbn9781925236729
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/143579
dc.description.abstractEarly 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:
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBrisbane History Group Inc
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.brisbanehistorygroup.org.au/books/brisbane-diseased-contagious-cures-and-controversy/
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleBrisbane Diseased: Contagions, Cures and Controversy
dc.relation.ispartofchapter10
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom193
dc.relation.ispartofpageto214
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode210303
dc.titleArt, healing and local native medicinal plants of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island)
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Queensland College of Art
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBuziak, Renata M.


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