antient Temple Goddiladenni in
Tattanour stands by one place where there are of these Letters. They
are probably in memorial of something, but of what we must leave to
learned men to spend their conjectures.

CHAP. XI.

Of their Sickness, Death and Burial.

[The diseases this Countrey is subject to.] Nothing now remains,
but to carry you to their Sick-beds, and to tell you what they do
with the Bodies of their friends deceased, and their Behavior on
these occasions. They live to a great Age very often to fourscore,
and hale at that age the Kings Sister was near an hundred. They are
healthy and of a sound constitution. The Diseases this Land is most
subject to are Agues and Feveurs, and sometimes to Bloody-fluxes. The
Small-Pox also sometimes happeneth among them. From which they cannot
free themselves by all their charms and inchantments, which are
often times successful to them in other distempers. Therefore they
do confess like the Magicians in Egypt, that this is the very finger
of Almighty God. They are also subject to Aches and Pains in their
Bodies. For the Remedy whereof they have excellent oyntments and oyls,
which they make and keep to have ready when they have occasion.

[Every one a Physitian to himself.] Here are no professed Physitians
nor Chyrurgeons, but all in general have some skill that way, and are
Physitians and Chyrurgeons to themselves. Their Medicines they make of
the leaves that are in the Woods, and the barks of Trees. With which
they purge and vomit themselves, and will do notable Cures upon green
wounds, and also upon sore eyes.

To give a few hints of their method of Physick and what Ingredients
they make use of.

[To purge.] For purging they make use of a Tree called Dallugauhah. It
bears no leaves, nothing but thorns, and is of a soft substance. Being
cut there runs out a white thick milk; in which we soak some whole
corns of Pepper a whole night. The next day the Pepper is taken out,
and washed clean, and then boyled in fair water with a sower fruit
they call Goraca, which we shall speak of by and by. This they drink,
and it purgeth very well. This milk is rekoned as rank Poyson as any
thing can be, and yet the Goats eat of the Tree greedily without harm.

[To Vomit.] For a Vomit, there is is a leaf of a Plant called Warracole
in colour like a Cabbage leaf, but smaller; it grows upon a long stalk
some three foot high. This leaf as soon as it is broken from the stalk
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