Productions of Boutan and Thibet, 
petrifa&ionsfaponaceous to the touch, which are employed as an 
external application in fwellings and pains of the joints. They 
often remove fuch complaints, and violent head-achs, by fumi- 
gating the part affected with aromatic plants and flowers. They 
do not feek for any other means of information refpe&ing the 
ftate of a patient than that of feeling the pulfe ; and they confi- 
dently fay, that the feat of pain and difeafe is eafily to be dis- 
covered, not fo much from the frequency of the pulfe as its 
vibratory motion. They feel the pulfe at the wrift with their 
three fore-fingers, firfl of the right, and then of the left 
hand ; after preffing more or lefs on the artery, and occa* 
fionally removing one or two of the fingers, they determine 
what the difeafe is. They do not eat any thing the day on 
which they take phyfic, but endeavour to make up the lofs 
afterwards by eating more freely than before, and ufing fuch 
medicines as they think will occalion coftivenefs. 
The many fimples in ufe with them are from the vegetable 
kingdom, colleded chiefly in Boutan. They are in general inofFen- 
(ive and very mild in their operation. Carminatives and aromatics 
are given in coughs, colds, and affe£tions of the breaft. The 
tentaury, coriander, carraway, and cinnamon, are of this fort, 
rhis laft is with them the bark of the root of that fpecies of 
Laurus formerly mentioned as a native of this country. The 
Dark from the root is in this plant the only part which par- 
:akes of the cinnamon tafte ; and I doubt very much if it 
;ould be diftinguifhed by the beft judges from what we call 
:he true cinnamon. The bark, leaves, berries, and ftalks of 
nany fhrubs and trees, are in ufe with them, all in decodlion. 
Some have much of the aftringent bitter tafte of our moft 
valuable medicines, and are generally employed here with the 
fame view, to ftrengthen the powers of digeffion, and mend 
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