. Practice of medicine and surgery by the Canadian tribes in Champlain's time . ^~**.. Jlie Medicine Man Applying Yellow r;iiiit. beforeliand, Miirl wliich he displays, saying: There is the .Maniloii: now thou artcured, and il only remains to give a feast. Jhe Devil, bent on tonnenting those poor l)linde<l creatures oven in tiiisworld, has suggested to them aiiotber remedy, in wliidi tliey ))]iice groat consists in grasping the ])aticnt under the ainis and making liim walk barefootover the live eiidters in the cabin; or. if he is so ill that lie cannot walk, he iscarried by to
. Practice of medicine and surgery by the Canadian tribes in Champlain's time . ^~**.. Jlie Medicine Man Applying Yellow r;iiiit. beforeliand, Miirl wliich he displays, saying: There is the .Maniloii: now thou artcured, and il only remains to give a feast. Jhe Devil, bent on tonnenting those poor l)linde<l creatures oven in tiiisworld, has suggested to them aiiotber remedy, in wliidi tliey ))]iice groat consists in grasping the ])aticnt under the ainis and making liim walk barefootover the live eiidters in the cabin; or. if he is so ill that lie cannot walk, he iscarried by toui or fi\c persons and maile to pass slowly (.\er all the fires, a troat-mont which often results in this: that tlie greater sulTering thereby producedcures, or induces unconsciousness of the lesser pain whicli they strive to cure. After all, tlie coninionest remedy, as it is I be most prolilable for thepbysician, is tlie holding (d a feast to the Sun. wliich is done in tlie belief tliat thisluminary, which takes ])leasure in liberal actions, being a])])eased bv a magnificentrepast
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