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a hollow Wn to the part affeaed upon the breaking of which 3 
there runs out a thin watry humour, very often of different co- 
lours, as yellow, green and black, upon which the patient re- 
covers ; that variety of colours may be owing to the herbs 
wherewith the patient is covered, or to the horn itfeif, which is 
tinged with fome colour 5 to provoke fweat the CoJ/acks chiefly 
ufe j^ifua Vitee or fome acid broths with oil and pepper, and 
in their diet they do not forbear eating flefh with vinegar and 
boiled onions, which they call Sigofl ; as on the one hand thefe 
people do not much regard pharmaceutical remedies, fo on the 
other, they go to excefs in ufing fome chirurgical operations, as 
bleeding by lancets and leeches, which latter they alfo apply 
internally on the palate and gums ^ they alfo ufe iffues, and . 
the trepan, which laft operation is very frequent in Sweedland, 
and executed with fuccefsj the MufcGvites that border upon 
China ufe tea not only in deco£lions, but alfo in fubftance, 
and powdered in j4qua Vit(e to the quantity of a drachm and a 
half: They have a fort of odoriferous paftils of a yellow co- 
lour, of which they fnufF up four grains with their mouths 
open 5 and for two hours they evacuate more vifcid Mucus than 
they could with any cathartic, and by thefe they cure all dif- 
orders of the head proceeding from cold: Some of them 
fwallow down the fmoak of tobacco out. of a very large pipe; 
upon which they drop down, as in aft apopledlic fir, out of 
which they are loon rouzed by vomiting and purging, and tho' 
no fuch effcds enfue, yet when they awake they find their 
heads relieved, and themfelvesin a good plight: The Tartars 
are for the moll part from their childhood accuftomed to live 
on milk and horle flefh, and their phyfic is continual riding 5 
befides fome external empyrical medicines, they have a few 
internal ones among them ; as for inftance, when any one is 
very much indilpofed, and when they fufpedl a malignant 
fever, they take a young hare and opening the carotid artery, 
the patient fucks the blood as long as he can 5 afterwards they 
flea the fldn, and wrap it warm about his head, and fo com- . 
pofes himfelf for lleep and fweat: When any of their flaves or 
captives is taken ill of a fever, they drag him for fome time by 
the hair, and afterwards throw him into a running llream, and 
thus by altering the humours and fpirits, the patient gets clear 
of the fever: The Dr. had thefe accounts from a friend, who 
had lived for a long time in thefe northern partsj if any among 
the "-Tartars Ihould meet with a difafter either by falling from 
his horfe, or otherwife, they firft of all caufe him to make 
water, 
