wa% 1 Mr. Saunders’s Account of the 
the general habit. Their principal purgative medicines are 
brought by the Chinefe to Lada. They had not any medicine 
that operated as a vomit, till i gave the Rajah fome ipecacu- 
anha, who made the firft experiment with it on himfelf. 
In bleeding they have a great opinion of drawing the blood 
ifrom a particular part. For head-achs they bleed in the neck ; 
for pains in the arm and (boulder, in the cephalic vein ; and of 
the bread or fide, in the median ; and if in the belly, they bleed 
in the bafilic vein. They think pains of the lower extremity 
are bed removed by bleeding in the ancle. They have a great 
prejudice againd bleeding in cold weather; nor is any urgency 
or violent fymptom thought at that time a diffident reafon for 
doing it. 
They have their lucky and unlucky days for operating or 
taking any medicine; but I have known them get the better 
of this prejudice, and be prevailed on. 
Cupping is much pra&ifed by them ; a horn, about the fize 
of a cupping glafs, is applied to the part, and by a lmall aper- 
ture at the other end they extraft the air with their 
mouth. The part is afterwards fcarified with a lancet. 
This is often done on the back; and in pain and fwelling of 
the knee it is held as a fovereign remedy. I have often ad- 
mired their dexterity in operating with bad inftruments. 
Mr. Hamilton gave them dome lancets, and they have 
fince endeavoured, with fome fuccefs, to make them of that 
form They were very thankful for the few I could fpare 
them. In fevers they ufe the Kuthullega nut, well known 
In Bengal as an efficacious medicine. They endeavour to cure 
the dropfy by external applications, and giving a compounded 
medicine made up of above thirty different ingredients : they 
feldom or never fucceed in effe&ing a cure of this difeafe* 
■i I explained 
