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of phyrician, yet I could never learn that their knowledge was fo 



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confiderable, that they could cure the abovementioned difeafes y for 

 generally the natives ingenuoufly confefs, that there is no irrepoti,.. 



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or remedy againft them. They have, however, fome method of 

 curing the venereal difeafe ^ becaufc there is an inilance of it men- 

 tioned in Hawkefworth's, vol. ii. p, 233, and we were likewife 



told, that they ufed fome irrephu, or remedy : but either the people : 



to whom we fpoke, did not know this remedy, and could not therer- 

 fore inform us of it, or- they concealed it from us, as' a great and 

 important fecret, not to be trufted with a fet of inquilitive firanger&o 

 They certainly ufed a kind of St achy s^ fEneea-rohitteeJ ; a Cotula 

 (E-VainooJ with another plant ciAltd Etobhoo bruifed as cataplafms 

 upon their wounds, though I cannot .determine how far thofe plants 

 may be endued with healing qualities.- The general fobriety of the 



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natives, a found conftitution, and their happy and uniform, climate, 



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greatly contribute no doubt towards healing their wounds; fo that 



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the efficacy of their remedies cannot as yet be fairly decided, as a 

 fet of experiments mufl be tried in order to afcertain their virtue. I 



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7ki'C'wTz2>;;ziff/ IS compounded ; as" if the people- meant to intimate that their phyficians are' 

 in their opinion a kind of priefls. And I am inclmed to believe that their phyficians' 

 employ in fome inftances charms or incantations, prayers or ceremonies againft the difeafe* 

 See Hawkefworth, vol, ii» p. 231, z^i^.. 



