Chap. X. 



NATIVE REMEDIES. 



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a pot with water, and, when it was boiling, placed it on a spot 

 beneath a blanket thrown around both nie and it. This pro- 

 duced no immediate effect ; he then got a small bundle of different 

 kinds of medicinal woods, and, burning them in a potsherd nearly 

 to ashes, used the smoke and hot vapour arising from them as 

 an auxiliary to the other in causing diaphoresis. I fondly hoped 

 that they had a more potent remedy than our own medicines 

 afford; but after being stewed in their vapour-baths, smoked 

 like a red herring over green twigs, and charmed secundem 

 artem, I concluded that I could cure the fever 'more quickly 

 than they can. If we employ a wet sheet and a mild aperient in 

 combination with quinine, in addition to the native remedies, they 

 are an important aid in curing the fever, as they seem to have the 

 same stimulating effects on the alimentary canal, as these means 

 have on the external surface. Purgatives, general bleedings, or 

 indeed any violent remedies, are injurious ; and the appearance 

 of a herpetic eruption near the mouth is regarded as an evidence 

 that no internal organ is in danger. There is a good deal in 

 not " giving in " to this disease. He who is low-spirited, and 

 apt to despond at every attack, will die sooner than the man 

 who is not of such a melancholic nature. 



The Makololo had made a garden and planted maize for me, 

 that, as they remarked, when I was parting with them to pro- 

 ceed to the Cape, I might have food to eat when I returned, as 

 well as other people. The maize was now pounded by the women 

 into fine meal. Tins they do in large wooden mortars, the exact 



Egyptian Testle and Mortar, Sieves, Corn Vessels, and Kilt, identical with those in use by the Makololo 

 and Makalaka.— From Sir G. Wilkinson's ' Ancient Egyptians.' 



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