Medicine, Magic, and Religion

action attitude Australia banish Banks Islands beliefs concerning blood body called causation of disease chief concept concerning the causation connexion cure customs definite degeneration diagnosis disease is ascribed disorders earth Eddystone Island elements of culture especially example factors faulty trend ghosts Guinea higher powers history of medicine human agency human culture hypnotism ideas illness important independent origin Indonesia inflict disease influence introduced kaia kenjo kind knowledge leech leechcraft magic and religion magical or religious mankind massage Mateana medical practice medicine and religion Melanesia ment mental method mind mode morbid Murray Island nature neurosis object packet pain Papuan patient physician Polynesia priest principle produced production of disease regarded relations between medicine religious character remedies resemblance self-knowledge similar Sir James Frazer social processes sorcerer soul soul-substance spirit spiritual agency suggestion sympathetic magic taboo tion Tonga victim W. H. R. Rivers York Island