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rlicea in the beginning, but having all the other Symptoms 

 that attend that Disorder, such as Cutaneous Eruptions, 

 Nocturnal Pains, &c. This Distemper of late has been com- 

 municated to the Indians by the Christian Traders, and 

 though it is not very common amongst them, yet some few 

 have lost their !N^oses by it, and others are become most miser- 

 able Spectacles by neglecting it's Cure; at last they make a 

 shift to cure or patch themselves up, and live for many 

 Years after; such Men commonly turn Doctors amongst 

 them, and some of these No-Nose Doctors are in very great 

 Esteem amongst them. The Juice of the Tulip Tree is used 

 by the Indians as a proper Remedy for this Distemper. 



The Small Pox proved very fatal amongst them in the late 

 War with the Christians, few or none ever escaping Death 

 that Tvere seized with it. This Distemper was intirely un- 

 known to them before the arrival of the Europeans amongst 

 them. Their Method in this, as in all other Fevers, is to run 

 directly into the Water in the extremity of the Disease, 

 which strikes it in and kills most that use that Method. 



They use Scarification in most Distempers ; their chief 

 Instruments are the Teeth of the Rattle- Snal^e, which they 

 poyson with upon occasion. They take out the Teeth of the 

 Snahe, and suck out the Yenome with their Mouth, which 

 they spit on the Ground, and receive no damage thereby ; it 

 is of a greenish Colour, as I have frequently observed. These 

 Teeth they keep for the uses above-mentioned, having no Xo- 

 tion of Lancets, or other Instrument proper in those Opera- 

 tions. 



The Spleen is a common Distemper with the Indians in 

 this Province, which they cure by burning on the Belly with 

 a Reed or Hollow Cane, after the following- manner : They 

 take the Cane and put the End into the Eire where they burn 



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