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wizard to trial. The tribunal met on the night of the arrival of the 

 child. This trial is fully described in the section on witchcraft. The 

 writer, who was called to the house of the invalid soon after her 

 arrival, endeavored to take the pulse, but found this impossible, 

 though the little sufferer, who was rational and deeply attached to 

 the writer, made every effort to keep the emaciated arm (piiet. She 

 rolled and tossed, pulled at her hair and throat, and threw her arms 

 wildly about, her legs moving as violently as her arms. Her head 

 was never quiet for a moment. The loving family took tui-ns in 

 gently holding her on the pallet. First the mother, then the father 

 at intervals appealed to the writer to help their poor child. After 

 many efforts the writer succeeded in taking the pulse of the girl on 

 the third evening after her return to Zuni, and found it to be 110. It 

 was still necessary for her to be held on the bed. She slept but little, 

 and the liquid nourishment prepared by the writer was given to her 

 from the mouth of her mother in small quantities until the eleventh 

 day, when there was a slight change for the better. The pulse was 

 now 90, but on the twelfth day it rose to 100. On the night of that 

 day the writer found the patient eating cold boiled potatoes, and on 

 the following day she was indulged with unripe watermelon, which 

 she seemed to enjoy greatly. The menses appeared on the thirteenth 

 day, and the pulse was reduced to 80. The patient continued gradu- 

 ally to improve until her health was fully restored. The writer could 

 not discover that an}" other than fetishistic medicines were adminis- 

 tered to this girl. 



Once, while the writer was deep in the mysteries of theurgism with 

 Na'iuchi, an elderly woman hurried into the room and with streaming 

 e3'es and trembling voice urged the great theurgist to come to the 

 bedside of her dying grandchild. Not a moment was to be lost if the 

 life of this wee one, so precious to the parents and grandparents, was 

 to be saved. The writer accompanied Na'iuchi, who closely followed 

 the grandmother, and the}" found the infant, who was 18 months old, 

 lying on a pallet in a comatose condition. The fond mother, half 

 reclining by its side, looked the picture of despair. With tears rolling 

 down her face she greeted the doctor and implored him to save the 

 life of her child. Na'iuchi at once began his work. Taking his seat 

 at the left of the child, he manipulated the entire l)ody in the most 

 heroic manner, giving special attention to the stomach and abdomen. 

 The infant was not exposed to the air, as is usually the case during 

 such treatment, Na'iuchi seeming to understand that the body must 

 })e kept warm with the blanket covering. In a few seconds after he 

 began his treatment a faint wail from the child was heard, and later the 

 groans from the little one were distressing to listen to; yet the mother 



