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girdle being knotted at intervals so as to present several closed 

 pouches that held the gum. Brass rings encircled the girdle, and 

 alternated with the pouches. The manner of treatment was to take 

 the girdle in the hand, and with it to make passes on the body 

 of the patient: three gentle, downward strokes on the neck, three 

 down the length of the arm, and one from hip to foot. Possibly 

 the disease is thus forced to pass out through the feet. 



Method of Internal Use without Bin-nine/. Definite rules are laid 

 down for the preparation of medicines to be taken internally, 

 according to the class of medicine and the sickness. Certain kinds 

 of seeds, grasses, roots and vegetable gums must be boiled in water, 

 and the decoction drunk entire; while certain other kinds of roots, 

 as well as many varieties of rattan, barks and twigs are to be 

 scraped, or minced, dropped into water, sometimes hot and sometimes 

 cold, and swallowed raw. Bile from serpents 3GG — a good remedy 

 for pain in the belly — is put into water and drunk without 

 boiling. The liver of the crow will cure a great number of troubles, 

 whether eaten cooked or raw. Cinnamon bark and certain roots 

 are scraped fine, and eaten dry. 



Method of Wearing or of Carrying Medicine on the Person. The 

 last type of curative agents to be mentioned includes all those 

 worn about the person or carried in one's bag or basket, the mere 

 presence of the object seeming sufficient to secure the benefit. 

 One of the most universally-used medicines of this class is the 

 decorated neck-band of rattan that bears the name of Umbo and 

 preserves the wearer from spitting blood, from centipede bite and 

 from swollen breasts. Remedies for many illnesses are tied up in 

 small rags and attached to the bead necklace or to some part of 

 the clothing. Petals of ylang-ylang blossoms are strung for neck- 

 laces, and bits of fruit from the build tree are also strung and 

 hung round the neck, to prevent pain or to cure it. Hanging from 

 the belt or from the jacket of the Bagobo are often to be seen 

 bunches of dry, but fragrant, leaves and flowers, and heavy tassels 



fashioned f'r many strings of seeds or of tiny discs of aromatic 



woods, all in readiness to smell in case of headache, or to dispel, 

 by their men' presence, other aches and pains. 



3< " The Benna <>f the Peninsula have a cure for fever which consists in wearing hung 

 on the neck the gall-bladder tnken from a python. Cf. II. Maktis-. Die Inlandstamme 

 <ler rnalayischen Balbhuel, p. 966. 1905. 



