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ion colour, of the fhape of a coffee-bean, and divided in the 

 middle.. 



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CUSSO,. BANKES.IA. ABYSSINICA. 



HPHE Cuffo is one of the moft beautiful trees, as alfo one' 

 v of the moft ufeful. It is an inhabitant of the high 

 country of- Abyflinia, andindigenous there ; I never fawit in 

 the Kolla, nor in Arabia, nor in any other part of Ana or 

 Africa. It is an inflance of the wifdom of providence, that 

 this tree does not extend beyond the limits of the difeafe of 

 which it. was intended to be the medicine or cure. 



The Abyffmians of both fexes, and at all ages, are troubled 

 with a terrible difeafe, which cuftom however has enabled 

 them to bear with a kind of indifference. Every individual j 

 once a month, evacuates a large quantity of worms; thefe are 

 not the tape worm, or thofe that trouble children, but they 

 are the fort of worm called Afcarides, and the method of 

 promoting thefe evacuations, is by infufing a handful of dry 



Cuffo 



