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fulfilled. (7) Gatasan, done in cases where disease is supposed 

 to be due to not fulfilling an oath taken on the Koran. A rope 

 or bejuco is held by the pandita and the patient; on the pandita's 

 end some chickens, clothing, or presents are tied. After a 

 few prayers the pandita severs the rope between them and takes 

 home whatever objects are tied to his end. (8) On the advice 

 of the pandita the patient may promise that should he get well 

 he would make a pilgrimage, panundiung, to visit and pray over 

 the grave of a famous person. In all these ceremonies tutugan 

 may be added, which is producing smoke by placing leaves of 

 plants or incense over burning charcoal. Dancing by men and 

 women, bulalacau, also may take place. 



The tabib may be a layman, a pandita, or a hadji who knows 

 how to cure diseases, and the profession is not circumscribed to 

 any definite social class or caste. They are more or less char- 

 latans and enjoy more or less reputation. One of them, Tabib 

 Midsapak, of Maganuy, was famous on account of his success 

 in curing diseases due to the devil. 



The tabib or pandita called to attend the sick must leave his 

 house, when called, at the hour period in which the cutica for his 

 social status reigns (maisuara for datus, sry for women, bisnu 

 for panditas, barahama for old patriarchs, and kala for war- 

 riors). The tabib, on entering the patient's house, washes his 

 hands and feet up to the elbows and knees, looks at the patient, 

 and concocts the medicine, over which usually he prays a duana 

 minangung and afterward blows on it. The following duana 

 minangung is the most frequently used around Cotabato: 



"Bismil-laji rakmani-r-rajiim. Aljamduli-laji rabil-alamin, ar-rakmani 

 rajiim; malikiyau-midin, iya kana-ambudu, wa iya kana-astain, ij-dinas 

 siru-atal mustakim, siru-atal ladina an-amta ala-ijim, gai-iril maglubi ala- 

 ijim, wa alau-waj lin amin." 



MEDICINES USED 



The pharmacopoeia of the tabib is very extensive and contains 

 plants, herbs, prayers, and cabalistic signs. The Maguindanaos 

 possess books and writings containing prescriptions for diseases, 

 called paubatan. Several of these, obtained from Datu Mastura, 

 of Nuling ; Datu Manguda, of Lum"bayanagui ; Datu Guiukulanu, 

 of Makadalung ; and Saika Datu, of Taviran, were examined, and 

 the following recipes are translated from them as illustrations : 



Amenon'hcea. — The shavings of the bark of the following trees 

 arfe mixed: Bungalauan, maguiakani, garu, saandana, and dali- 

 ma, linseed oil is added, and the concoction is drunk. 



