JM.X NOTES ON KANSU 



of mud. But first this earth is boiled in large cauldrons and 

 then applied. Here is antiseptic surgery for you, surely ! 



Did time permit I might go on to speak of many peculiar 

 medical points — of the incidence and prevalence of goitre, or 

 of leprosy or of elephantiasis, and of the popular Kansuh 

 explanation of the etiology of each of these — or of Kansuh 

 local hospitals or medicinal hot springs — or of folklore in our 

 dear old queer old province. Some day there may be 

 opportunity of referring to these or to our rather peculiar 

 internal communication by road and water. But I trust I 

 have said enough to whet the appetite of some readers to care 

 more for the little-known and barely touched Kansuh. 



