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It is recognized that the provisional explanation of the cause 

 of the Buhi epidemic is unsatisfactory, and the pyogenic bac- 

 teria may be associated with some other agent which is the 

 real cause of the disease. However, it seemed worth while to 

 give a brief account of the observations made by Doctor Isaac 

 and by me, in the hope that they m.ay be of some use to those 

 who have seen, or may encounter, a similar disease.^ 



' It may be of interest to note the nature and variety of remedies 

 used for this disease by the people of the village. Application of carbolic 

 acid, petroleum, silver nitrate, tincture of iodine, and charcoal of coconut 

 shell; and poultices of garlic, mustard, and of the leaves of the following 

 plants: anonang, betel-nut palm, dao tree, cotton, and calumpinag. Also 

 cupping with a cow's horn was practiced, burning with a lighted cigarette, 

 and binding with a string to arrest the progress of the inflammation. 



