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ground roots or pounded leaves and well rubbed into the 

 hair. 



For the destruction of maggots in cattle-sores the sovereign 

 remedy is the umKluplKdiipetliiL (Calpurnia lasiogyne). 

 The bulb of the iLahatheJici (Hypoxis latifolia) is ground 

 and placed in food for the destruction of all small vermin. 



Alcoholism. 



So up-to-date have the Zulu doctors become that they 

 actually have a cure for inebriates (vide my Zulu-English 

 Dictionary under IsiDakwa), as well as remedies for the shiver- 

 ing fits, umQliuqlio or (N) umZuzo, and the alcoholism [uValo] 

 following habitual inebriation. These shivering fits are a 

 curious feature in native alcoholic poisoning. Some natives 

 get them invariably, even after a " reasonable " indulgence, 

 and none are safe from them if they go to habitual excess. 

 The whole body trembles, the teeth chatter, and since the 

 patient is invariably found huddling over a fire, we may 

 assume that he experiences a sensation of intense cold. In a 

 word, the symptoms so far are identical with those manifested 

 in nuilarial fever. But beyond this shivering fit the attack 

 rarely goes. I have never heard among the raw Zulus of a 

 case of absolute delirium,^ although they do at times get as far 

 as a state of nervous collapse, showing itself in an abnormal 

 timidity or restlessness. I should therefore suppose that this 

 urnQJiuqlio or iimZuzo must be a mild variety of alcoholism 

 peculiar to Kafir beer or Kafir corn poisoning, since among 

 European inebriates we do not hear of such shivering. 



H a i 1- - R e s t o r e r . 



Certain African races regard hair-dyeing as a very necessary 

 improvement of their physical beauty. Although the Zulu 

 women have the habit of regularly colouring the hair with 



' This does not refer to the isiShimeyana (treacle-mead) drinkers of 

 Natal, among whom I have found several cases of delirium. 



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