Burma . planations. They ascribe disease to states of the blood, to heats and vapours. The cooling qualities of nitre are extolled for the one, andthe cordial effects of spice for the other. Dietetic questions interest every-body, and everyone has his or her pet nostrum. Very little operative surgery isattempted as compared with India and China—merely the opening of abscessesand setting of bones. Hare-lip and cleft palate, and the cognate deformities,appear to be frequent. The dressings applied to wounds and sores are chieflyturmeric, slaked lime, nim-\ lithotomies and otherm
Burma . planations. They ascribe disease to states of the blood, to heats and vapours. The cooling qualities of nitre are extolled for the one, andthe cordial effects of spice for the other. Dietetic questions interest every-body, and everyone has his or her pet nostrum. Very little operative surgery isattempted as compared with India and China—merely the opening of abscessesand setting of bones. Hare-lip and cleft palate, and the cognate deformities,appear to be frequent. The dressings applied to wounds and sores are chieflyturmeric, slaked lime, nim-\ lithotomies and othermajor operations, and the boonof chloroform, have spread thefame of western surgery in avastly wider circle than it canreach itself The sick are ten-derly nursed by the Burmans,and never abandoned in panicfear as happens in epidemicsamong the hill-tribes. Thereare few greater sources of re-ligious merit than ministering tothe sick. During the puerperium,the Burman custom is to main- zas. burman ^^I^H^^Bffii^ / r M I ; € FlI^MBB 1 ^ 1^* ^1 eV 1 6 i jgra^ji--^^-;y^ - .^i^^^^mI^^S ^B^W^^^^t!^ ^ ^O B^^i^ r ^^^^^j ^?•^ ?? IR 1 -?<-- ... =.jl t K3 ^rjiMB^^^fciiii^^B^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \ ppjppws^y^g^^^^w^^^^^^^^^^^^^y^^^ — -—-^ - 284. BAZAR SCENE, PEGU. \To face p. 128. ILLUMINANTS 129
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