nori!KK.| MODES OF TREATING DISEASE. 465 



recall, among iiiuuy other eases, those of Chaundezi (&quot;Long Ear,&quot; or 

 &quot;Mule ) and Ohemihuevi-Sal, both chiefs of the Apache, who recov 

 ered under the treatment of their own medicine-men after our surgeons 

 had abandoned the case. This recovery could be attributed only to 

 the sedative effects of the chanting. 



Music of a gentle, monotonous kind has been prescribed in the medi 

 cal treatment of Romans, Greeks, and even of comparatively modern 

 Europeans. John Mason Goodc. in his translation of Lucretius I)e 

 Xatura Rerum, mentions among others Galen, Theophrastns. and Anlns 

 Gellius. An anonymous writer in the Press of Philadelphia, Pa., under 

 date of December l . 5. 18SX. takes the ground that its use should be 

 resumed. 



The noise made by medicine-men around the couch of the. sick is no 

 better, no worse, than the clangor of bells in Europe. Bells, we are 

 told, were rung on every possible occasion. Brand is full of quaint 

 information on this head. According to him they \vererung in Spain 

 when women were in labor, 1 at weddings,- to dispel thunder, drive 

 away bad spirits, and frustrate the deviltry of witches; 11 throughout 

 Europe on the arrival of emperors, kings, the higher nobility, bishops, 

 etc., 4 to ease pain of the dead, 5 were solemnly baptized, receiving 

 names, 6 and became the objects of superstition, various powers being 

 ascribed to them. 7 . 



Adair, who was gifted with an excellent imagination, alludes to the 

 possession of an ark&quot; by the medicine men of the Creeks and other 

 tribes of the Mississippi country, among whom -he lived for so many 

 years as a trader. The Apache have no such things; but I did see a 

 sacred bundle or package, which I was allowed to feel, but not to open, 

 and which 1 learned contained some of the lightning-riven twigs upon 

 which they place such dependence. This was carried by a young 

 medicine-man, scarcely out of his teens, during Gen. Crook s expe 

 dition into the Sierra Madre, Mexico, in 18&amp;lt;S3, in pursuit of&quot; the hostile 

 Chiricahua Apache. Ma j. Frank North also told me that the Pawnee 

 had a sacred package which contained, among other objects of venera 

 tion, the skin of an albino buffalo calf. 



There are allusions by several authorities to the necessity of confes 

 sion by the patient before the efforts of the medicine-men can prove 

 efficacious. 8 



1 Popular Antiquities, vol. 2. p. Til. 



Ibid., p. 1G(P. 



Ibid.. p. 217. 



Ibid., p. 218. 



Ibid., p. 21 U. 



6 Ibid., pp. 214, -2]-,. 



Ibid.. ]i.21(i. 



When the Camera are severely sick, tliry often think that they shall not recover, miles* they 

 divulge to a priest or magician, every crime which they may have committed, which has hitherto been 

 kept secret.&quot; [Harmon s Journal, p. 300. The farriers or Ta-kully are Tinneh. 



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