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and tobacco, and to forbid the patients the ufe of cold li- 

 quors and of certain kinds of food. This cure, however, 

 has been rendered ftill fimpler, and various otiier means more 

 effeaual have been devifed. On the Irtifch, a ftrong lixi- 

 vium of wormwood afties is employed, and a decoftion of 

 tobacco and fal-animoniac, or alilm^ without fcarification. 

 On the Ui line, a warm plafter made of pulverifed night- 

 fliade, fal-ammoniac, yeaft, and oatmeal, is faid to be an 

 infallible remedy; but the common pe(>ple flill adhere to 

 the old painful method of cure, which is ufed even by feme 

 furgeotts. In other places the common people confider the 

 application of a living frog to the tumours as of fervice j but 

 I have no authority for warranting its good efFeas; The 

 other means, as i^ well known by long experience, are proper 

 for deftroying vermin, and therefore favour the conjeaure 

 before mentioned refpeaing the primary caufe of this difeafe. 

 In the extenfwe low-lands on the Wolga, from Saratof 

 towards Aftracan, the cattle, and particularly horfes, when 

 they are driven out to pafture tod foon after the water with 

 which the fields have be&n overflown has run off, frequently 

 die in confequence of hard inflammatory tumours which 

 break out on the breaft and belly, and which, without doubt, 

 afe of the fame nature as the above-defcribed Siberian difeafe. 

 The Calmucs call thefe tumours mohmo, but, as appears, con- 

 found under this name other maladies, accompanied with tu- 

 mours, which attack cattle. This much, however, is certain, 

 that on the Wolga the tumours here defcribed are prevalent 

 among the human fpecies ; but they are moft common in 

 dry fummers ; and the men, who are daily expofed to the 

 open air, are more fitbjea to them than the women, who 

 conftantly refide in their fmoky huts^ or never remove to a 

 great dlftance from them. Among the Calmucs on the 

 Wolga, the Songari, who were acquainted with this difeafe 

 in their former country, the Altai mountains, recommend, 

 as a remedy for it, to burn on the tumour a bit of Chincfe 

 incenfe, which confumes in the fame manner as tinder, and 

 then to thruft into the black point which appears in the 

 middle of it, a copper or iron needle, till it penetrate to the 

 found flefti. This remedy, however, muft be applied before 

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