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plying effectual Antidotes to them; for Medicinal Herbs are 

 here found in great Plenty, the Woods and Savannas being 

 their Apothecary' s Shops, from whence they fetch Herbs, 

 Leaves, Barks of Trees, with which they make all their 

 Medicines, and perform notable Cures ; of which it may not 

 be amiss to give some Instances, because they seem strange, 

 if compared with our Method of curing Distempers. They 

 have a certain Method in poysoning their Arrows, and they 

 will temper them so as to work slow or swift as they please ; 

 they can make it so strong, that no Kiat can save the Person 

 or Beast that is wounded with them, except it be by their 

 Kings and Conjurers, their young Men being ignorant of it. 



They use Sweating very much, especially if violent Pains 

 seize the Limbs, or any other part of the Body, which is 

 performed by certain Vegetables which they are well ac- 

 quainted with; for as soon as they are afflicted with these 

 kind of Disorders, they take Peeds or small Wands and bend 

 them, with these they make little Huts, covering them with 

 Deer Shins, Blankets, or their Matchcoats, and the like ; they 

 have other Sweating Houses built in shape like large Ovens ; 

 they have Fires made not far from these Sweating Houses, 

 wherein they heat Stones, or (where these are wanting) the 

 Bark of Trees, putting them into these Stones, which occa- 

 sion an extraordinary Heat, by the help of which, and the 

 Herbs which are boiled in a Pot, they sweat very plentifully. 

 They likewise use Bathing often in the Waters for the like 

 Disorders. 



They never miss curing most kinds of Cutaneous Erup- 

 tions by the Plants that are produced in this Country : Tney 

 infallibly cure Scald Heads, which they chiefly perform with 

 Oil of Acorns, but from which Oak I never could be rightly 

 informed, they being very secret in what they know. They 



cure 



