BOURKE. ] MODES OF TREATING DISEASE. 465 
recall, among many other cases, those of Chaundezi (‘* Long Har,” or 
* Mule”) and Chemihuevi-Sal, both chiefs of the Apache, who recoy- 
ered under the treatment of their own medicine-men after our surgeons 
had abandoned the case. This recovery could be attributed only to 
the sedative effects of the chanting. 
Music of a gentle, monotonous kind has been prescribed in the medi- 
cal treatment of Romans, Greeks, and even of comparatively modern 
Buropeans. John Mason Goode, in his translation of Lucretius’? De 
Natura Rerum, mentions among others Galen, Theophrastus, and Aulus 
Gellius. Ananonymous writer in the Press of Philadelphia, Pa., under 
date of December 23, 1888, takes the ground that its use should be 
resumed. 
The noise made by medicine-men around the couch of the sick is no 
better, no worse, than the clangor of bells in Europe. Bells, we are 
told, were rung on every possible occasion. Brand is full of quaint 
information on this head. According to him they were rung in Spain 
when women were in labor,' at weddings,? to dispel thunder, drive 
away bad spirits, and frustrate the deyiltry of witches;* throughout 
Europe on the arrival of emperors, kings, the higher nobility, bishops, 
ete.,* to ease pain of the dead, were solemnly baptized, receiving 
names,° and became the objects of superstition, various powers being 
ascribed to them.’ 
Adair, who was gifted with an excellent imagination, alludes to the 
possession of an “ark” by the medicine-men of the Creeks and other 
tribes of the Mississippi country, among whom he lived for so many 
years as a trader. The Apache have no such things; but I did see a 
sacred bundle or package, which I was allowed to feel, but not to open, 
and which I learned contained some of the lightning-riven twigs upon 
which they place such dependence. This was carried by a young 
medicine-man, scarcely out of his teens, during Gen. Crook’s expe- 
dition into the Sierra Madre, Mexico, in 1883, in pursuit of the hostile 
Chiricahua Apache. Maj. Frank North also told me that the Pawnee 
had a sacred package which contained, among other objects of venera- 
tion, the skin of an albino buffalo ealf. 
There are allusions by several authorities to the necessity of confes- 
sion by the patient before the efforts of the medicine-men can prove 
efficacious." 
1 Popular Antiquities, vol. 2, p. 70. 
2Tbid., p. 160. 
3 Tbid., p. 217. 
4Thid., p. 218. 
5Thid., p. 219. 
6 Thid., pp. 214, 215 
7Thbid., p. 216. 
S“When the Carriers are severely sick, they often think that they shall not recover, unless they 
divulge to a priest or magician, every crime which they may have committed, which has hitherto been 
kept secret.’’—[Harmon’s Journal, p. 300. The Carriers or Ta-kully are Tinneh. 
Q) tottis ——— 50) 
