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ten ounces of water, administer half the quantity, and cause 
the patient to snuff a small quantity up the nostrils. 
Should there be a flow of blood from any pore or conduit 
of the body, give a small quantity of water, boiled and sweet- 
ened with refined sugar; this at 11 A.M. 
If this should not stanch the flow of blood give half a gill 
(un tanto) of juice of Cepa de guineo sweetened with sugar. 
Should the patient be uneasy or restless, grind up a yuca, add 
to the mass a little sugar, shave a spot clean on the crown of 
the head, and apply the pulp to the spot. To Gabaro de car- 
nestolenda add a little water, and with this rub well the bitten 
limb, binding it afterwards on the bitten part with a strip of 
cotton cloth. 
For a Patoquilla-bite, first administer a beverage of luke- 
warm water sweetened with refined sugar, and afterwards a 
decoction or tincture of Capitanu and Jenerala in two or three 
ounces of water ; rub the bitten limb with Capitana, and with 
a lancet make a cut from fang-wound to fang-wound, and 
another deep one crosswise, and with the lancet scrape off the 
blood that may flow from the wound, putting upon the latter 
powders of the fruit called Ojo de buci (ox’s eye). Should 
there be any headache, give the patient a standing bath in 
running water (brook or river) of ten minutes’ duration. 
If on account of any pregnant woman, or woman with her 
monthly flow, having passed near the patient, there should be 
an aggravation of the pains, give the bath as indicated in the 
preceding paragraph. 
For a Mapana-bite administer Capitana, or Capitana jene- 
rala, or Jenerala in a dose with two and one-half ounces of 
water. Scarify the bitten part from fang-wound to fang- 
wound, and scrape it till the red blood flows, then bind upon 
it powdered Capitana mixed with Estancadera, but if this 
cannot be procured use powdered Chupadera (a wild yam 
