19^ KALM'S ENGLAND. 



Bot mot Ormbett. Remedy for Snake bite. 



Mr. Ellis said he knew a sovereign remedy for snake 

 bite, which consisted in this, that when anyone had been 

 bitten by a snake, blifvit huggen af en orm, he must 

 at once kill the snake, take its fat or lard, fett eller 

 ister, and lay it on the wounded place. This, he 

 assured us, supersedes everything hitherto discovered. 

 I have since on my foreign travels heard from very 

 many this given as one of the surest remedies against 

 snakebite. 



Bot mot Sara Ogon. Cure for Sore Eyes. 



Mr. Ellis assured us that sore eyes are cured by 

 nothing so well as fat and lard of snakes and swine, 

 which Sir Hans Sloane first discovered, and has since 

 made generally known through the press. 



As Mr. Ellis wished to hear something of the mode 

 of life among the Lapps, I mentioned to him as a 

 peculiarity that one scarcely ever finds a Lapp afflicted 

 with scurvy, and added that Linnaeus ascribes as a 

 reason the Lapps' diet, which is never to use salt, or eat 

 salt meat ; also that one from that seems to have reason 

 to believe that salt might possibly be the principal cause 

 of this sickness. Also I told him that few of the Lapps 

 use bread, and many of them, perhaps, have never seen 

 it, but that they avail themselves of dried flesh, and fish 

 instead. But I note that Mr. Ellis [T. I. p. 197] did 

 not rightly understand my meaning, for in a book which 

 he has since published, and which he calls The Country 

 Housewife's Family Companion, he says, pp. 22 and 23, that 

 he gathered from me " that the Lapps are never plagued 

 with scurvy, for the reason that their bread is dried fish, 

 &c." whereas I not only ascribed to the salt, the first and 

 greatest, if not the only principal cause of this sickness, 

 and vice versa that when salt is not used one does not 



