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around their limbs in a kind of splint. When dried it was very 
hard and supported their limbs so that they could travel. 
(9) The splinters from a tree struck by hghtning were always car- 
ried by medicine men and used as lances, especially for lancing the 
gums. If a man were suffering from toothache they cut the gum 
with these splinters “so that the blood ran.” 
DENTAL SURGERY 
If a tooth were hollow the Chippewa sometimes heated an awl 
or other metal instrument almost red hot and put it into the hollow 
of the tooth. 
If it were considered necessary to pull a tooth they struck it 
forcibly to loosen it. 
If a tooth were partly loosened they tied a sinew around the tooth, 
close to the root, attached it to something solid and pulled the tooth 
by jerking backward. 
CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES AND INJURIES ” 
1. Nervous system: 6. Skin: 
Convulsions. Inflammation. 
Headache. Boils. 
“ Craziness.” Sores. 
2. Circulatory system: Hruptions. 
Heart. Warts. 
In the blood. Hair. 
3. Respiratory system : 7. Wounds: 
Cold. Tncised. 
Cough. Internal. 
Lung trouble. Bites of poisonous reptiles. 
Hemorrhage from lungs. 8. Bruises. 
4, Digestive system: 9. Burns. 
Sore mouth. 10. Ulcers. 
Toothache. 11. Fevers. 
Sore throat. 12. Scrofula. 
Indigestion, 13. Hemorrhages. 
Pain. 14. Diseases of women. 
Colie. 15. Diseases of the eye. 
Cramps. 16. Diseases of the ear. 
Dysentery. 17. Diseases of the joints, including 
Physic (use of). rheumatism and sprains. 
Hmeties (use of). 18. Baths. 
Worms. 19. Tonies and stimulants. 
Cholera infantum. 20. Hnemas. 
5. Urinary system: 21. General remedies. 
Kidney trouble. 22. Diseases of the horse. 
Stoppage of urine. 
Gravel. 
Tn determining this basis of classification the author received the valued assistance 
of Dr, D. S. Lamb, who at the time was pathologist at the Army Medical Museum, 
Washington, D. C. 
