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Show SCIENCE NEWS HA little, long nosed Scottish doctor haa attained at-tained a rare brand of immortality. Indiana of the Tule tribe. In Panama, have made him their god of medicine, and his cult la spreading to other tribes, 300 yeara alter hia death. Aa evidence of thla, the Smithsonian Institution has almost a dosen wooden canes, tha tort that Indian medicine men use in their healing ceremonies, every one carved with the unmistakable feature of Dr. William Wil-liam Patterson This Scottish god of medicine la distinguished by a long note, a high top hat and a coat of green or black. Investigation reveals that Dr. Patterson waa leader of a Scottish colony which came to the coast of the Oulf of San Bias In 1888. Intent on trade with the Indiana. Dr. Patterson made frienda with the Indiana by hit marvelous cures. Then the Spaniarda objected to the Scottish colony, feeling that It encroached on their preserves. pre-serves. Dr. Patterson and hia followers departed, leaving with the Indians only the memory of the greatest medicine man they had ever known. In tlma the doctor came to be thought of aa a god who had once lived In their midst, and hia figure carved In wood became magic to aid Tule doctors in their work. Today, the cult Is spreading spread-ing to Indians of northern South America, as shown by the magic cane that the Smithsonian has acquired. |