Literature relating to Australian Aborigines
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Immune dysfunction in Australian Aborigines.
An examination of the prevalence and phenotype of immune disorders in different ethnic groups may provide important clues to the etiopathogenesis of these disorders. Whilst still conjectural the restricted and somewhat unique polymorphisms of the MHC (and other genetic loci involving host defences) of the Australian Aborigines may provide an explanation for their apparent heightened susceptibil...
متن کاملPseudoexfoliation of the lens in Australian Aborigines.
The first cases of pseudoexfoliation of the lens to be found in Australian Aborigines are reported. The prevalence rate in the communities in central Australia is 1-3% and for those 61 years and older is 16-3%. Within the limits of our assessment glaucoma was an associated finding in 8-1% of these cases. A high incidence of old trachoma, previous trauma, and Labrador keratopathy was also noted ...
متن کاملSome paediatric problems of Australian Aborigines.
Australia is generally considered one of the "developed" nations; tech ... nicaJIy advanced, with high stan dards of living and health, and with one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world. This is true for the vast majority of Australians woo are of Europeam origin, but not for those of aborigi!ll al deacent, the etlhnic minority who are now recogni .zed to have serious health prob...
متن کاملPalaeolithic medicine, with particular reference to children of Australian aborigines.
Al though t h e r e m a y h a v e been s o m e Asian con tac t w i t h Aus t ra l i a p r io r t o d o c u m e n t e d h i s to ry , t h e f irs t ev idence of ou t s ide inf luence c a m e in the 17th cen tu ry , ini t ia l ly w i t h t h e D u t c h a n d l a t e r b y t h e Br i t i sh in 1770. F r e n c h scientif ic expedi t ions in t h e S o u t h Pacif ic w e r e a lso i m p o r t a n t...
متن کاملAn endemic neurological disorder in tribal Australian aborigines.
Thirteen, and possibly sixteen cases of neurological disorder have been identified in a population of approximately 1100 tribal aborigines living in Groote Eylandt and the adjacent mainland. There were two relatively distinct clinical pictures: one coming on in childhood involved the motor system, the patients often having remarkably lax ligaments; and the other, generally of later onset, compr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1907
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/077080d0