OBSERVATIONS ON THE CUICHUNCHULLI. 
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made inquiries if they had the Cuichunchulli; and this being 
told to a white woman of the place, she supposed him to be a 
physician, and sent to request that he would see her, which 
he complied with. This unfortunate person, about 25 years 
of age, had all the signs of the Mai de San Lazaro, in a mark- 
ed degree, and was besides in extreme indigence. She told 
him that it was four years since she was attacked with the 
disorder, and that, having lately heard of the virtues of 
the plant just mentioned, she had taken some of it that 
grew about that village; but that it had done her no good 
whatever; and that she afterwards procured the Chimborazo 
plant, though with the greatest difficulty, and had taken it in 
doses of two drachms, steeped in water for the space of ten 
days, at the end of which her supply of it was expended, and 
her poverty disabled her from obtaining any more, and even 
from getting proper nourishment. The medicine, she said, 
both vomited and purged her, and brought on excessive 
sweatings, a great flow of urine, and much faintness, but her 
ears and hands became less swelled, and more sensible, and 
the ulcers she had on different parts of the body were gene- 
rally reduced to one-third of their previous size. She gave 
him a remnant of the plant from Chimborazo, with its leaves, 
&c, and these he found were exactly similar to those from 
Riobamba which had been shown to him by Senor Borrero in 
Cuenca. 
When in Riobamba, Monsieur Marcucci received all neces- 
sary information concerning the plant he was seeking from the 
parties who had procured it for Senor Borrero, and by means 
of Indians whom they recommended, he collected some quan- 
tity of it, although, as it is not very abundant, he thought that 
quantity but trifling when compared with the expenses, the 
troubles, and the hazards he had incurred for its acquisition. 
He believes, indeed, that he might have collected more, if he 
had continued longer at Riobamba; but he was frequently in- 
disposed during the thirty days he passed in that town, par- 
ticularly from severe attacks of intermittent fever, and there- 
fore was obliged to leave it for Guayaquil, where he embarked 
