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sickness. That certain medicines and certain methods of treatment 

 wore of medicinal value is not d()ul)tc(l and {)('rlia})s the snnffino- of a 

 little s like (species of veratrum) into the nostrils to stop a cold is a case in 

 point. Sea water and various green herbs were also used for the sick. 

 In most medicines, however, the symlxilic and supernatural play a 

 nuich greater part than the empirical. The following list of medicines, 

 along with their uses, was given me by an old man in Sitka: 



Land-otter medicine (ku'cta nak") was taken when one was "short- 

 winded in one place."' 



Smelling medicine (ItcA'ni nak") grows on the tops of mountains and 

 is named from its strong odor. It is ru1)bcd on the body for any kind 

 of sickness or blown upon the traps to make them successful. 



Medicine-that-makes-one-win (djijA'naxAc niik") is a plant used to 

 make one successful and also angry. Wlien a person's friend has been 

 killed, and one has not succeeded in getting I'evenge, he can do so by 

 wrapping up a bundle of this with a little image of the person he 

 desires to slay. Anything that has an image of itself so wrapped up 

 will be destroyed. 



Medicine-that-tells- anything-that - happens- in - the - town (a'nto-xox 

 nfUv") is made out of flowers found in the woods and will inform one 

 of just what is going on. 



Loving-each-other medicine (wuctsixA'ni nak"), when properlj' used, 

 will make a woman suffer for love of the man she has rejected and 

 cause her to walk after him, crying. To the plant one adds bubbles 

 that come up at the edge of the rising tide, so that the girl's sorrow will 

 rise with the rising of the tide, and also eartli from her footprints, so 

 that wherever the man walks she will follow him. The Crying-for 

 medicine, of which the writer was told at Wrangell, is of the same kind, 

 but unlike this it could be used only by the Raven people. 



As its name implies, Flower-hunting-for-a-rich-man (anqa'wo gii'- 

 koci) makes a person wealthy. It is said to grow about 4 feet high 

 and bears its seeds at the top. 



Medicine-that-makes-things-humble (Iqii'tul tcTn nak") is taken to 

 make animals and men humble themselves before the owner of it. 

 The roots alone are used. To make this medicine efficacious the pos- 

 sessor spits some of it out in front of himself as he goes along. 



Dzi'nxi medicine (dzi'nxi inlk" — dzi'nxi being probably the name of 

 a flower) grows only over the place where a ground hog lives. It is 

 put inside of the cheek and chewed so that one may obtain power to 

 kill animals. 



Seal's-tongue medicine (tsa-L!u'te nak") is a large flower which is 

 chopped up and put on big boils or sores to heal them. 



Medicine-from-fallen-trees (as Lliql nak") will infallibly kill any man 

 or woman on whom it is fastened. 



