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sat by without saying one word to tlie theurgist/' and there was not 

 even an expression of concern on liis face for the pain he was inflicting 

 upon the child. No medicine was used in this case, which appeared 

 to the writer, on entering the room, to be an entire!}" hopeless one. 

 Within an hour the patient was restored to its normal condition of 

 health, and on the following morning the writer observed the infant 

 on the back of its mother eating green watermelon, which seems not 

 to have induced a return of cholera infantum. 



In another case treated by Na'iuchi the child, though ver}" low, was 

 not in a comatose state. He remained but a short time with the little 

 one, manipulating it as described above, and then left, saying: '"I 

 must go now to my fraternity, but will soon return." After an hour 

 he went to his home, and securing medicine, made another visit to the 

 infant. He mixed the medicine, which wa^ an emetic, with warm 

 water and administered a small quantit}^ at a time by dipping a reed 

 into the water and putting it to the child's mouth. After doing thus 

 several times, Na'iuchi again left, giving instructions to the mother 

 about repeating the dose. About two hours after the doctor departed, 

 the infant, after copious vomiting, was found much improved and 

 enjo^dng nourishment from the mother's breast. 



Massage is the treatment for rheumatism, and sheep chips heated 

 before the fire and sprinkled with water, which are used for any trouble 

 that may be relieved by steady heat, are applied externally, one cake 

 of the manure being kept by the Are while another is in use. 



In 1S9G the writer became interested in a child of 9 years afilicted 

 with curvature of the spine. This child fell from a ladder when she 

 was 5 years old, injuring her back, and she had been growing worse 

 since the accident. She had a beautiful face and was so patient and 

 gentle that she won the heart of the writer, and the two became fast 

 friends. At this time there was no appearance of abscess. In 1902 

 the writer returned to Zuiii and found her little friend, who was then 

 15, sufl'ering from a large lumbar abscess with probable caries of the 

 vertebra\ The girFs face, though still beautiful, bore evidence of 

 great sufl'ering. She was colorless and emaciated, but with it all a 

 most patient little sufferer. Her sad face and ever gentle bearing 

 were profoundly touching. An incision had been made for the pur- 

 pose of drainage, beginning in the lumbar region about 1^ inches 

 above the crest of the pelvis at the outer side of the spinal column and 

 running diagonally downward and forward to the inner side of the 

 anterior superior spine of the ilium and continuing forward along the 

 groin for nearly its entire extent. The wound was packed with a mix- 



aThe writer has never known a member of a family to interfere in the slightest degree with the 

 treatment of the theurgist. It may be here stated that no precaution whatever is taken to prevent 

 cholera infantum among the Zufii children. As soon as an infant is able to hold anything in its 

 hand the probability is that it will be sucking or biting on something not less harmful, perhaps, than 

 a piece of unripe watermelon. 



