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GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION XXII. 
Of the Difeafes to which the Laplanders are fubjedi, and the Reme¬ 
dies they ufe—Of their Funerals. 
HP HE fmall-pox has at times proved very fatal in Lapland, but 
has not made its appearance there for many years. In ge¬ 
neral the Laplanders enjoy the beEfc poffible Rate of health, and 
excepting the head-ach, and a few flight diforders, may be faid to 
be free from difeafes. Inward complaints they pretend to cure by 
fwallowing the blood of the feal and rein-deer as warm as poffible. 
The tooth-ach they like wife relieve by drinking the feal’s blood : 
this is but a late remedy, for formerly they knew no other appli¬ 
cation than a fplinter from a tree Rruck with lightning, with 
which the difeafed tooth was to be touched. It is remarkable 
that the teeth of the Laplanders are often corroded by worms, 
and that in a manner unknown to the inhabitants of other cli¬ 
mates. 
Their method of cure for a difeafe of the eyes, called the pin and 
web, w 7 hich is an imperfect Rage of a cataradl, is fingular and cu¬ 
rious, and hence is recommended by the miffionary to the Daniffi 
faculty of phyficians : it is effeCted by the introduction of the pe- 
diculus humanus (common loufe) 'within the eyelids, which, by 
its 
