The physician and anthropologist Max Bartels presents the history of the medicine of indigenous peoples in this volume. Bartels thoroughly examines the nature of diseases, the healers of indigenous peoples, medications, surgical procedures, and various treatments along with their areas of application. He also takes into account the belief in the supernatural in the medicine of indigenous peoples. Bartels' discussions are illustrated with 175 woodcuts. This is a carefully revised reprint of the original edition from 1893.