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4. Are any difeafes caufed by the effluvia of 

 certain trees or plants, or is the touching, hand- 

 ling or cutting of trees or plants ever fuddenly 

 prejudicial to health ? Does the effluvia from 

 fpice trees or the frank incenfe tree prove dele- 

 terious ? 



5. What are the effects or fymptoms, which 

 arife from the bite of poifonous fnakes, or any 

 reptile or infect ? Has the bite of a fnake ever 

 been found to have a falutary effect in curing a 

 certain previous difeafe, or does the bite of one 

 fnake, ever deftroy the effects of another ? Are 

 there any counterpoifons or antidotes ufuai 

 againfh the bite of fnakes ? Is mufk or any 

 fpecies of the ariftolochias a remedy which the 

 fnakes avoid and fly from, or do any of thefe 

 prove lethal to fnakes ? 



6. Is the pedra de cobra ufed as an antidote 

 againft the effects of the bite of any fnake, 

 and with what fuccefs ? How is this remedy 

 procured and applied ? 



7. The manner of managing domeftic ani- 

 mals, whether in health or otherwife. The 

 animals which the natives in any country caftrate, 

 and the effects produced by it \ as well as the 

 period when fuch a cuftom was firft introduced. 



8. It would deferye remarking where and in 

 what manner Polygamy is introduced, whether 

 perpetual or temporary, and the effects of it upon 

 the manners, religious or civil cuftoms, popu- 

 lation, &c. of fuch countries. Does Polygamy 

 prevent fome men from procuring wives, or 

 are the women brought from neighbouring 

 nations ? Is it any where cuftomary for one 

 woman to be married to feveral hufbands during 

 the life of the firft ? 



9. Accu- 



