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diseases which are peculiar to the natives. 6. What is the 
treatment employed against these diseases ? 7. Do they use 
native vegetables, i. e. simples or other remedies, or both ? 
8. Is there any prescribed method of collecting, preparing, or 
administering these remedies ? 9. What are the names of the 
simples, native or botanical, or both P and what are the names of 
other remedies, if there are such remedies ? 10. What are the 
doses in which they are administered ? and how frequently, and 
the mode of administration ? 11. What is the limit of admi¬ 
nistration, or the sign by which it is decided to cease the exhi¬ 
bition ? 12. What are the effects of these remedies P 13. Do 
the diseases or the remedies produce any lastingly injurious 
effects ? 14. Are there other remedies resorted to besides the 
exhibition of simples ? If so, describe them as accurately as you 
are able. 15. Describe any superstitions relating to diseases. 
16. Describe any charms employed or any superstitious ceremo¬ 
nies observed in sickness. 17. Any peculiar implements used 
in the practice of these charms. 18. Do his friends wait upon 
the sick man and attend to his wishes and wants ? 19. Is he 
laid upon a bed of any kind ? 20. On his recovery, are there any 
ceremonies of purification or otherwise attended to ? 
21. Have you learned any thing as to the methods observed 
during labour and childlirth ? 22. Do particular persons attend 
the woman in labour, or who attends her ? 23. In cases of 
difficult labour, what measures are resorted to ? 24. Do difficult 
cases occur rarely, or more or less frequently ? 
25. If the natives carry bones on their persons of dead rela¬ 
tives, or other objects of this kind, try to ascertain precisely 
what is their object in so doing, whether (a) out of respect for 
the dead, ( b) as memorials and marks of affection, (c) whether as 
amulets to avert sickness or other evils, (d) whether as fetishes, 
( e ) as charms, or (/) magical means of communicating with un¬ 
seen talismans or powers, (g) whether such objects so borne are 
ever used as remedies for sickness. 
26. Are any measures of a sanitary nature observed to pre¬ 
serve the health of villages or of individual persons P If so, de¬ 
scribe them ? 
