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glafles or Calabafhes again. “Their Lancet is a {harp Knite, with 
which they cut through the Flefh held between their Fingers. 
This, inftead of relieving, fometimes feems rather to add more 
pain to the place, by making a Flux of Blood that way. There 
are few Negros on whom one may not fee a great many Cicatrices ot 
Scars, the remains of thefe Scarrifications, for Dileafes or Orna- 
ment, on all their Faces and Bodies, and thefe Scarifications are 
common to them in their own Countries, and the Ccatrices thought 
* Fobn Lok.to add beauty to them. * The Negros called Papas have moft 
ap. Hakl. of thefeScarifications. Other Negros take great pleafure in having 
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their woolly curled Hair, cut into Lanes or Walks asthe Parterre 
of a Garden, and this I have feen them do, for want of a better 
Inftrumenc, with a broken piece of a Glafs Bottle. 
Another very general Remedy inalmoft every Difeafe, is mixing 
Clay and Water, and plaiftering over either fome part, or all the 
Body in the warm Sun; but as this maft of neceffity ftop the in- 
fenfible tranfpiration, {o it rarely miffesto add a Cough to the Pa- 
tients Malady, and always, by what I faw, fails of the Cure of 
the Diftemper. Although I will not fay but that in fome Difeafes 
it may avail. 
They ufe very few Decoctions of Herbs, no Diftillations, nor 
Infufions, but ulually take the Herbs in fubftance. For inftance, 
in a Clap, they grind the Roots of Fingrigo and Lime-Tree, be- 
tween two Stones, and ftir them into Lime-Juice till ic be precy 
thick, and fo make the Patient take it evening and morning for fome 
time. This is the fame method of preparing Medicines, with what 
in the Ea/t-Indies is practifed, for I have feen many Simples from 
thence, and all, or moft, are to be ground on a Stone with fome 
fimple ee and fo given the Patient. 
Befides Simples, the Negroes ufe very much bleeding in the Nofe 
with a Lancet for the Head-ach... They thruft up the Lancet into the 
tip of the nofe, after tying a Ligature about the Neck, and fome 
drops of Blood follow, whence they think themfelves relieved in 
Colds, with Hoarfenefs and ftuffed Nefes. 
Bathing is very much ufed by them. They boil Bay-Leaves, 
Wild-Sage, ec, in water, in one of their Pots, when boil’d they 
tye a Fafciculus of thefe Plants up together, and by putting chat 
into the Decoétion fprinkle their Bodies all over with it as faft as they 
can, they being naked. 3 
The Negros and Indians ufe to Bath themlelves in fair water every 
day, as often asconveniently they can. 
Ihave heard a great deal of their great Feats in curing feveral Di- 
feafes, but could never find them any way reafonable, nor fuccel- 
ful in any, and chat little they know of Simples here, feems to 
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