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