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on a bit of Leather, then they strike the Reed and push out 

 the Tooth, this they perform with a great deal of Dexterity, 

 and never endanger the Jaw, which other Instruments are 

 apt to do. 



They seldom make use of Amputation, except it be to the 

 Captives that they take in War, when they cut off the Feet, 

 which I have mentioned in another Place. But in any im- 

 moderate defluctions of Blood, or any other Humour from 

 any part of the Body, they are never at a loss for a speedy 

 Cure. 



I never observed any of them to practice Anatomy, neither 

 do I believe that they have any Knowledge therein, unless as 

 I observed before, that they make Skelitons of their Kings 

 and great Men's Bones. They can colour the Hair Black, 

 though of a Reddish Colour, or any other Colour, which they 

 do with a certain Seed or a Plant that grows in their Planta- 

 tions. They make use of no Minerals in Physick, and very 

 little of Animals, but chiefly depend on Vegetables, for all 

 Disorders amongst them. They are well acquainted with 

 the Spontaneous Plants that are produced in these Parts of 

 the World ; and a Flux of Blood seldom or never follows any 

 of their Operations. 



They are scarce ever known to make use of any Gums or 

 Rosins in their Physick; as for Catharticks and Emeticks, 

 so much in fashion in Europe, they do not esteem or make 

 use of, unless it be immoderate Drinking such vast quanti- 

 ties of their Yaiipan Tea, and vomiting it up again, this they 

 continue every Morning, or oftner, where they can have this 

 Plant, from which they receive great Benefit, not only in dis- 

 charging and cleansing the Stomach from the peccant Hu- 

 mours there lodged, but likewise by its great Diuretick 

 quality which carries off those Humours by the Ureters, that 



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