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has occasioned the last few years in Europe, as if it 

 promised to he a valuable addition to our Materia 

 Meclica. This, I conceive, can never be, for no 

 civilized stomach could bear the bulk of the drug 

 necessary to produce its effects. Even in Abyssinia 

 it is but barely tolerated, and let another remedy, 

 equally efficacious for dislodging tape-worm be 

 introduced into that country, and the use of cosso 

 will be soon abandoned. In fact, several other 

 vegetable productions are now employed to escape 

 the punishment of a dose of this violent cathartic. 

 Among many I could enumerate, but without any 

 benefit arising from the list, is the " kolah," the 

 same berry which is used in making the " barilla" 

 tedge, also the red berries of a climbing plant 

 called " inkoko," growing in the forest at the foot 

 of the hill of Kundi, near Michael wans. These 

 are swallowed whole, like pills, but a very great 

 number are required to produce the desired 

 results. 



Besides the use of the cold bath, employed in the 

 manner I have before related, and which may be of 

 considerable benefit in some diseases, I have no 

 notes upon any other medical treatment employed 

 by the Shoans, excepting that from which I derived 

 considerable benefit in my intermittent ; the vapour 

 bath, prepared by putting several species of odori- 

 ferous herbs, such as wormwood, rue, bergamot, 

 and some others in boiling water, and then placing 

 the vessel beneath a large tobe, I was wrapt up in, 



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