Burma . h is both effectualand mild. Among the mineral drugs are mercury, calomel, sulphur, blue andgreen vitriols, alum, salammonaic, nitre. There is a whole category of supposi-titious remedies, tigers gall, rhinoceros blood, ant-eaters scales, and so forth ;they are charred before being made up. Allied to this class of remedies is thatof charms, the vendors of which (nat-wives—nakkaddw) trade on the superstitionthat disease is caused by demons. Every patient will be as particular to mentionhis star as to describe his complaint. He will be advised to avoid certain classesof remedies on certa
Burma . h is both effectualand mild. Among the mineral drugs are mercury, calomel, sulphur, blue andgreen vitriols, alum, salammonaic, nitre. There is a whole category of supposi-titious remedies, tigers gall, rhinoceros blood, ant-eaters scales, and so forth ;they are charred before being made up. Allied to this class of remedies is thatof charms, the vendors of which (nat-wives—nakkaddw) trade on the superstitionthat disease is caused by demons. Every patient will be as particular to mentionhis star as to describe his complaint. He will be advised to avoid certain classesof remedies on certain Sunday son must notpurge on Friday, and so times of epidemic and panic,Mbdnzedi are erected at everyhouse, as they likewise are incases of sickness (No. 431).They are merely of sand, heldtogether with circles of they are erected toavert calamity declared to beimpending in a shwepe-hlwdza,a message on gold foil droppedfrom heaven by a Thadyd(p. 186). Images are dedicated. 281. CHILDRENS BAZAR (p. 10). 128 BURMA
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