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thefe. In the northern parts they made much life 

 of glifters, a bladder was their inftrument for this 

 purpofe. They have a remedy for the bloody-flux 

 which feldom or never fails ; this is a juice ex- 

 preffed from the extremities of cedar branches af- 

 ter they have been well boiled. 



But their grand remedy and prefervative againft 

 all evils, is fweating. I juft told you, Madam, 

 that the moment after coming out of the ftove, 

 and even whilft the fweat is ftill running down from 

 all parts of the body, they throw themfelves into 

 the river ; if this happens to be at too great a dis- 

 tance, they caufe themfelves to be fprinkled with 

 the coldeft water. They often fweat only to refrelh 

 themfelves, to calm their minds and to render them 

 fitter for fpeaking on publick affairs. The mo- 

 ment a flranger arrives in any of their cabbins, they 

 make a fire for him, rub his feet with oil, and 

 immediately conduct him pnto a ftove where his 

 hoft keeps him company. They have another ve- 

 ry fingular method of provoking fweat, which is 

 made ufe of in certain difeafes : this confifts in 

 extending the patient on a couch raifed a little a- 

 bove the ground, under which are boiled in a ket- 

 tle, the wood of the hiccery tree and the branches 

 of pine. The vapour which proceeds from it pro- 

 duces a moft profufe fweat : they alfo pretend that 

 the fmell of it is extremely wholfome ; the 

 fweat by means of a ftove, and which is pro- 

 cured by the vapour arifing from the water, 

 poured upon red-hot flints, is without this ad- 

 vantage. 



In Acadia no difeafe was thought worth their 

 notice, till the patient had entirely loft his appe- 

 tite; 



