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country ■, they know a certain remedy for the 

 bite of rattle fnakes, and other poifonous 

 animals. 



When the Indians are wounded with a bullet 

 or an arrow^ the do£tors or jugglers begin with 

 fucking the wound of the patient, and fpitting 

 out the blood : they never employ lint, or tents, 

 in their chirugical operations ; but they have 

 the powder of a root, which they blow into the 

 wound, to accelerate its fuppuration, and they 

 make ufe of another which dries and heals it ; 

 they preferve wounds from mortification, by 

 bathing them with a decoction of fome roots, 

 which they know *. 



When they are tired and exceflively fatigued, 

 after returning from a war, or from a hunt, 

 they ufe fweating in iloves -f^ as a reflorative. 



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* M. de Boffu would have very much obliged all the 

 world, by making ufe of his influence over the Indians, 

 which he repeatedly mentions, in order to get from them the 

 knowledge of fuch plants as they employ in their feveral diA 

 eafes and aliments : this would have been really uieful, and 

 a proof of his humanity and curious inquiries. F. 



f Thefe Iloves are round huts, built like overs in the 



middle 



