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proper use of medicines. Thus the efficient use of herljs was an 

 important province of the M idciciwiii, or ( irand Mechcine Society, 

 and the secrets of these herhs were transmitted from one feneration 



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Fig. 97. — Boat in rice-tield. Pliotograph by Aliss Densmore. 



Fig. g8. — Parching wild rice. Plinic.-rai/li by Miss Densmore. 



to another. ^Fiss Densmore's former study of the M idci^'in'in con- 

 trihuted to the present research, as ])ersons who recorded Midc son.fjs 

 more than ten years ag'o were wilhni; to impart information con- 

 cernin<T: the lierhs used in Midc remedies. 



