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fountain water ; if they perceive a white matter or pus 
to rise, they let the patient move at large, and pres- 
ently cure him." 
C. C. Jones says the physicians occasionally re- 
quired their patients to lie upon their stomachs with 
their heads over pans in which medicinal plants were 
being boiled, so that they might inhale the medical 
properties. The sweat-bath was an institution in every 
village or camp, and used not only in health, but for 
nearly every ill from which they suffered. Charlevoix, 
Brickell, Furman, and Pitcher give an account of a 
mode of administering an earth sweat-bath, which was 
to open a dry sand bank, or the earth where wood had 
been burned and before the ground had become cold, 
sufficiently deep for a man to lie down in, wrapped in 
a blanket. The patient is then covered over with the 
earth excepting his head, and left for hours. 
Carver, Charlevoix, and Pitcher mention the fre- 
quency of pleurisy among the Indians, which was 
treated by poultices and other external applications, 
some of which were of a rubefacient character. They 
also bled in these diseases. Consumption is mentioned 
by the same authors. Heckewelder claims that con- 
sumption had become more frequent among the In- 
dians after the introduction of alcoholic liquors. Los- 
kiel tells us that in consumption the flesh of the rattle- 
snake is made into broth and administered with good 
results. De Forest, in his History of the Indians of 
Connecticut, mentions the existence of quinsy, which 
was treated by sweat-baths. As might be expected, 
rheumatism, both in the acute and chronic form, was a 
common disease among the Indians, old and young. 
