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after which not one died. All who used it, agreed, 

 that it is a safe, sure, and speedy cure. 



Mr. James V. A. Anderson. 



August Athy 1804. 



3. About the year 1785, the Scarlet-Fever, with 

 sore-throat, appeared among the children at Detroit, 

 and swept off, in this little place, upwards of sixty- 

 children, and even a few grown persons, in the term 

 of a few weeks. Our Indian congregation, then liv- 

 ing in the neighbourhood, though they frequently 

 visited this place, never took the disorder, A per- 

 son at Detroit then remarked to me, that this dis- 

 ease did not affect the children of the French- Cana- 

 dians as much as it did those of the Europeans. 

 However, a disorder called the Hooping-Cough, 

 attended, at length, with a sore-throat, I have known 

 to prove destructive to the Indian children, in their 

 settlements. 



Mr. John Heckewelder. 



February \\tb y 1797. 



4. The Itch, I believe, is not common among the 

 Indians ; at least, I do not recollect of seeing one in- 

 stance of an Indian that had it. I have wondered at 

 this, and have ascribed it to their different mode of 

 living; namely, their food, their well-aired houses, or 



huts, &c. 



Ibid. 



