Swimmer Manuscript: Cherokee Sacred Formulas And Medicinal Prescriptions (Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 99)

Excerpt from The Swimmer Manuscript: Cherokee Sacred Formulas and Medicinal PrescriptionsI take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to those who have in many ways assisted me in completing this task.To Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, to whom I am not only indebted for my ethnological training and for many personal favors, but who has been directly responsible for my being intrusted with the editing of the present manuscript.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.