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cleanses a fowl ulcer, and after scarrification be- 

 ing applied to a contusion or swelling, draws forth 

 tlie pain and reduces the part to its pristine state 

 of healthj as I have often seen effected. Fats and 

 unguents never appear in their chirurgery when 

 the skin is once broken. The fats of animals are 

 used by them to render their limbs pliable, and 

 when wearied, to relieve the joints, and this not 

 often, because they approve of the sweating house 

 in such cases, above all things. 



The salts they mix with their bread and soup, 

 to give them a relish, are, alkalis, viz : ashes, and 

 calcined bones of deer, and other animals. Sal- 

 lads, they never eat any, as for pepper and mus- 

 tard, they reckon us little better than madmen, to 

 make use of it amongst our victuals. They are 

 never troubled with the scurvey, dropsy, nor stone. 

 The phthisic, ashma, and diabetes, they are wholly 

 strangers to. jN'either do I remember I ever saw 

 one paralytic amongst them. The gout, I cannot 

 be certain whether they know what it is, or not. 

 Indeed, I never saw any nodes or swellings, which 

 attend the gout in Europe ; yet they have a sort 

 of rheumatism or burning of the limbs, which tor- 

 tures them grievously, at which time their legs 

 are so hot, that they employ the young people 

 continually to pour water down them. I never 

 saw but one or two thus afflicted. The struma is 

 not uncommon amongst these savages, and another 

 distemper, which is, in some respects, like the pox, 

 but is not attended with no gonorrhoea. This not 



