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South Carolina physician says there are "hints" for white medicine in African and Indigenous healing.

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Alexander Garden continues to build the belief system that African and Indigenous people are without "knowledge and wisdom," and that white scientists must take their "rude instincts" and transform them into "true" knowledge. Many similar newspaper and journal articles are published during this period, differentiating between what is seen as the "vulgar" knowledge of African and Indigenous people in comparison to the supposedly "complex" and "sophisticated" knowledge of Europeans.