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touch'd a vein j for then there is no remedy : This is the juice 

 of a certain Herb which they apply to the wound, and in four 

 and twenty hours they are infallibly cured. 



The bad nourifhment of Crabs, and other infects on which 

 they commonly feed, is the caufe that they are moft of them 

 fubjeft to a troublefome difeafe, which in their language they 

 call Pyans^ as the French call it a kind of fmallPox: When 

 thofe who are fallen into this difeafe, eat of the Fram-Xortoife y 

 or of Lamantin^ or of Caret 3 which is another kind of Tor- 

 toife, they are immediately full of little rifings, inafmuch as 

 thefe meats force the difeafe out } they have alfo many times 

 great Impoftumes, Cornes, and Carbuncles, in divers parts 

 of the body : To cure thofe, which proceed for the moft part 

 from the bad nourifhment they ufe, they have the bark of a 

 tree called Chipiou, bitter as foot, which they fteep in water, 

 and having fcrap'd into that infufion the inner part of a great 

 fbell called Lambys, they drink up that potion: They alfb 

 fometimes pound the bark newly taken from certain trees of 

 Miby 5 or other Withyes which creep along the ground, or fa- 

 tten on trees, and drink the juice gotten from it : but they do 

 not willingly make ufe of this remedy but when the trees are 

 moft full of fap. 



Befides thefe Medicines wherewith they purge the ill hu- 

 mours within, they alfo apply outwardly certain unguents, 

 and liniments, which have-a particular vertue of taking away 

 the blifters and marks which commonly remain on their bo- 

 dies who have been troubled with the Pyans : They make up 

 thefe Remedies with the afhes of burnt Reeds, mixt with the 

 water which they get out of the leaves at the top of the Bali- 

 Jfer-tree : They alfo ufe to the fame end the juice of the Jmipa 

 fruit, and they apply on the botches the husks of the fame 

 fruit, which hath the vertue of drawing away the matter of 

 the wounds, and to clofe up the Ulcers : They have not the 

 ufe of Phlebotomy^ but they ufe fcarifications upon the place 

 affected, by fcratching or opening it with the Tooth of an 

 Agouty^ and craufing it to bleed a little. And to take off fome- 

 whatof the aftonifhment, which might be conceived at what 

 we have reprefented elfwhere concerning the incifions which 

 thefe Barbarians make on themfelves upon divers occafions, 

 whereby it might be imagin'd their bodies fhould be as it were 

 mangled and covered with fears, it is to be noted, that they 

 have alfo certain fecrets, and infallible remedies to cure them- 

 felves prefently, and to clofe the wounds fo that a man cannot 

 eafily obferve the leaftfear about their bodies. 



They alfb make ufe of artificial Baths, and provoke fweat 

 by a kind of ftove, wherein they inclofe the Patient, who 

 receives his abfolute cure by that remedy.- The Sorriquefes 

 do alfb fweat their fick, but fometimes they moiften them with 



their 



