38 REV. ALFRED T. BRYANT. 



and called by the same name, viz. uHlabo ov iHlaha, as 

 pleurodynia or rheumatic costal stitch. 



Any chronic form of chest complaint, if accompanied by a 

 persistent cough, is oftentimes called by the generic term 

 isiFuba or uFuba, that is, simply " chest disease," and may be 

 either consumption, asthma, or chronic bronchitis. 



An acute catarrh, if accoinpanied by general constitutional 

 derangement with feverishness, would be classed as an 

 iwiKhuhlane ; but if it were a simple cold, with the' cough "as 

 the sole feature, it Avould be termed merely an iilcnKhrrehlela, 

 or coughing. 



The habitual tickling cough, accompanying chronic laryn- 

 gitis or other throat ailment, would be known as an nSi or 

 aPlieplia. 



The native doctor's prescription of drugs is as confused as 

 his nomenclature. A large number of plant-remedies have 

 been found useful in relieving one or other of the symptoms 

 accompanying the various chest diseases, and he prescribes in 

 turn allsoever he is acquainted with, attacking the symptoms 

 either singly, or in common by a compound mixture. 



For the uHlabo in any form (pleurodynia or pleurisy), 

 four or five pieces, six inches long, of the roots of the 

 uHlungiihlnngu (Vernonia corymbosa) are taken, boiled 

 well in one cupful of water, and the decoction drunk gradu- 

 ally in spoonfuls, giving early relief from the stabbing pain. 

 Or the roots of the iDungamnzi, (N.) isiZimane (Euclea 

 natalensis) and of the iQicaningi (Cap par is corymbi- 

 f era), together with the thorns of the i8tc7idu palm (Phoenix 

 reclinata) and of the hUrqu-angane (Celastrus buxi- 

 folius) bush, are tied together in a small bundle, such as 

 can be grasped by the one hand, and an iron awl thrust 

 through the middle of the bundle so as to project at each 

 end. The whole is now boiled. Having taken the bundle 

 from the pot, and holding it by the protruding blunt end of 

 the stout needle, the doctor vigorously stabs the patient here 

 and there about the painful region with the sharp point of 

 the iron, at the same moment blowing with his mouth into 



