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and bunging him back to life. The same power was claimed by the 

 medicine-men of the Zufii, and the story told me by old Pedro Pino of 

 the young men whom they used to kill and restore to life, will be found 

 in &quot;The Snake Dance of the Moquis.&quot; 



REMEDIES AND MODES OF TREATMENT. 



The materia medica of the Apache is at best limited and compre 

 hends scarcely anything more than roots, leaves, and other vegetable 

 matter. In gathering these remedies they resort to no superstitious 

 ceremonies that I have been able to detect, although I have not often 

 seen them collecting. They prefer incantation to pharmacy at all 

 times, although the squaws of the Walapai living near old Camp 

 Beale Springs in 1873, were extremely fond of castor oil, for which they 

 would beg each day. 



The main reliance for nearly all disorders is rhe swent bath, which is 

 generally conducive of sound repose. All Indians know the benefit to be 

 derived from relieving an overloaded stomach, and resort to the titil- 

 lation of the fauces with a feather to induce nausea. 1 have seen the 

 Zufii take great drafts of uikewarin water and then practice the above 

 as a remedy in dyspepsia. 



When a pain has become localized and deep seated, the medicine 

 men resort to suction of the part affected, and raise blisters in that 

 way. I was once asked by the Walapai chief, Sequaiiya, to look at 

 his back and sides. He was covered with cicatrices due to such treat 

 ment, the medicine-men thinking thus to alleviate the progressive 

 paralysis from which he had been long a sufferer, and from which he 

 shortly afterwards died. After a long march, 1 have seen Indians of 

 different bands expose the small of the back uncovered to the fierce 

 heat of a pile of embers to produce a rubefacient effect and stimulate 

 what is known as a weak back. They drink freely of hot teas or in 

 fusions of herbs and grasses for the cure of chills. They are all dex 

 trous in the manufacture of splints out of willow twigs, and seem to 

 meet with much success in their treatment of gunshot wounds, which 

 they do not dress as often as white practitioners, alleging that the 

 latter, by so frequently removing the bandages, unduly irritate the 

 wounds. I have known them to apply moxa, and I remember to have 

 seen two deep scars upon the left hand of the great Apache chief Co- 

 chise, due to this cause. 



It should not be forgotten that the world owes a large debt to the 

 medicine-men of America, who first discovered the virtues of coca, sar- 

 saparilla, jalap, cinchona, and guiactim. They understand the admin 

 istration of enemata, and have an apparatus made of the paunch of a 

 sheep and the hollow leg bone. 



Scarification is quite common, and is used for a singular purpose. 

 The Apache scouts when tired were in the habit of sitting down imdl 

 lashing their legs with bunches of nettles until the blood flowed. This,; 

 according to their belief, relieved the exhaustion. 



