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their remedies, some of their chiefest physicians 

 commonly carrying their compliment of drugs 

 continually about them, which are roots, barks, 

 berries, nuts, &c., that are strung upon a thread. 

 So like a Pomander, the physician wears them 

 about his neck. An Indian hath been often found 

 to heal an Englishman of a malady for the value 

 of a match-coat, which the ablest of our English 

 pretenders in America, after repeated applications, 

 have deserted the patient as incurable ; God hav- 

 ing furnished every country with specific remedies 

 for their peculiar diseases. Eum, a liquor, now 

 so much in use with them that they will part with 

 the dearest thing they have, to purchase it ; and 

 when they have got a little in their heads, are 

 the impatientest creatures living, till they have 

 enough to make them quite drunk, and the most 

 miserable spectacles when they are so, some falling 

 into the fires, burn their legs or arms, contracting 

 the sinews, and become cripples all their lifetime ; 

 others from precipices break their bones and joints, 

 with abundance of instances, yet none are so great 

 to deter them from that accursed practice of drunk- 

 enness, though sensible how many of them (are 

 by it) hurryed into the other world before their 

 time, as themselves oftentimes will confess. The 

 Indians I was now speaking of, were not content 

 with the common enemies that lesson and destroy 

 their country-men, but invented an infallible strat- 

 agem to purge their tribe, and reduce their multi- 

 tude into far less numbers. Their contrivance 



