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Temperature, p. 37. The influence of climate upon the blood 
and the circulation should also be carefully studied, and the 
relation between circulation and respiration. 
1. What are the diseases suffered from by the natives ? 
2. Give the native as well as the ordinary English names. 
3. What diseases are most prevalent? 4. To what are thfe 
diseases attributed by the natives ? and mention any 
traditions or superstitions connected therewith. 5. Are 
charms employed or any superstitious ceremonies observed 
in sickness ? If so, describe them accurately, as also any 
peculiar implements used in the practice of these charms. 
6. Are sick persons waited on by their friends ? 7. Is isolation 
practised ? 8. Are any measures of a sanitary nature observed 
to preserve the health of communities or individuals? If so, 
describe them. 9. Is inoculation practised ? 10. What is the 
treatment employed against various diseases? 11. Are native 
vegetables, i.e., simples or other remedies or both employed ? 
If so are there any rules of collecting, preparing, or administer¬ 
ing such remedies ? 12. What are the names of the simples, 
native or botanical or both, and what are the names of other 
remedies, if there are such? 13. Describe the mode of 
administration of remedies with regard to dose and frequency? 
14. What is the limit of the administration of medicine or the 
sign by which it is decided to stop the medicine ? 15. If 
natives carry bones on their persons of dead relatives 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) as amulets to 
avert sickness or other evils, (d) as fetishes, (e) as charms, 
(/) or magical means of communicating with unseen talis¬ 
mans or powers, (g) or whether such objects so borne are ever 
used as remedies for sickness. 16. On a person’s recovery, 
are there any ceremonies of purification or otherwise in vogue? 
17. Do natives appear to suffer pain as acutely as Europeans ? 
18. Is massage practised in the treatment of disease or 
for other purposes ? 19. Have the natives much vital power ? 
Do they struggle against disease or do they readily succumb 
to it ? 20. Compared with Europeans in the same country, do 
