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cures. But this is by no means the case with 

 the others, called Cupovc, from the verb cupoti, 

 to anatomize ; these, infatuated with Macliiism, 

 dissect bodies, in order to show the entrails, 

 which they say are infected with magic poison. 

 Nevertheless, by means of this practice, they 

 acquire ideas by no means contemptible respect- 

 ing the conformation of the human body, for 

 the different parts of which they have appro- 

 priate names. 



Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Arau- 

 canians made use of bleeding, blistering, clysters, 

 emetics, cathartics, and sudorifics, all which re- 

 medies have their peculiar names in their lan- 

 guage. They let blood with the sharp point of 

 a flint fixed in a small stick. This instrument 

 they prefer to a laiK^et, as they think it less liable 

 to fail. Instead of a syringe they make use, 

 like the inhabitants of Kamschatka, of a blad- 

 der, to which they apply a pipe. Their emetics, 

 cathartics, and sudorifics, are almost all ob- 

 tained from the vegetable kingdom. 



Their internal and external commerce is very 

 limited ; not having yet introduced among them 

 the use of money, every thing is conducted by 

 means of barter. This is regulated by a kind of 

 conventional tariff, according to which all com- 

 mercial articles are appraised under the name of 

 Cullen, or payment, as was the custom in the 

 time of Homer. Thus a horse oc a bridle forms 



