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A MALAY METHOD OF TREATING TOOTHACHE. 
By L. WRAY, 
T она method of expelling the maggots or worms (ulat) 
which are supposed by the Malays to be the cause of toothache 
was observed recently in Larut, Perak; the patient being a Javanese 
gardener, who said he had had toothache for some days past. 
The blade of a changkul or digging hoe was supported эшет eie ud 
n two bricks, one placed at either end of it, and a fire of s 
Ended o on the ground between them and beneath it. Pues the middle 
наб apin inha. the vapour from the bamboo, co ntinuing he 
after another inhalation and expectoration discovered a secon 
men after looking at the worms in the bucket were quite satisfied with 
the success of the operation and the fire was put out and the 
treatment concluded. The Javanese the next day stated that he was 
quite cured. 
The а ted from the seeds was said to be very pungent (ы) and 
deii (pahit). "The variety of the egg-fruit used in this cure is a thorn 
PIE small red fruit. It is wild and fairly common in scrub 
Кайр ds und villages. 
It is, Pom needless to add, that a close inspection of the 
sed worms, disclosed the fact that they were only thin strings 
of saliva floating in the water. 
LIST OF A SMALL COLLECTION OF MAMMALS, BIRDS 
AND BATRACHIANS FROM GUNONG ANGSI, NEGRI 
SEMBILAN 
Bx HERBERT C. ROBINSON, м.в.ол. 
AM. not aware that any rae of the fauna of the mountains of 
the Malay Peninsula "bob n Batang Padang on the north and 
Gunong Ledang (Mt. Ophir) on a south has as yet been published. 
The present list may therefore be of interest as showing that the cha- 
racteristic Himalayo- T forms, such as Sibia, Mesia, Pag noes 
do not occur on the mou s of Negri Sembilan, whic 
to be inhabited, so far as our present laforas goes, = Өр 
Malayan forms identical with those found on Mt. Ophir and in the 
Johore hills. 
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