A JOURNEY TO THE 
1771. fkill to effet their recovery. Here it is neceflary 
wren to remark, that they ufe no medicine either for 
Augut. internal or external complaints, but perform all | 
their cures by charms. In ordinary cafes, fuck-_ 
ing the part affected, blowing, and finging to it; 
haughing, fpitting, and at the fame time uttering 
a heap of unintelligible jargon, compofe the whole 
procefs of cure.. For fome inward complaints ; 
fuch as, griping in the inteftines, difficulty of 
making water, &c. it is very common to fee 
thofe jugglers blowing into the anus, or into the 
parts adjacent, till their eyes are almoft ftarting 
out of their heads: and this operation is per- 
formed indifferently on all, without regard either 
to age or fex. The accumulation of fo large a 
quantity of wind is at times apt to occafion fome 
extraordinary emotions, which are not ealily 
fupprefled by a fick perfon; and as there is no 
vent for it but by the channel through which it 
was conveyed thither, it fometimes occafions an 
odd {cene between the doétor and his patient; 
which I once wantonly called an engagement, 
but for which I was afterward exceedingly forry, 
as it highly offended feveral of the Indians; par-. 
ticularly the juggler and the fick perfon, both of 
whom were men I much efteemed, and, except 
in that moment of levity, it had ever been no lefs 
my inclination than my intereft to fhew them | 
every refpect that my fituation would admit. 
I have often admired the great pains thefe jug- 
glers take to deceive their credulous countrymen, 
while 
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