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13 Their Diseases & Cures Their priests sometimes pray for their sick, and then they make many repetitions with a terrible howl= ing noise, & viilent gestures of their body, till they are all over in a sweat. They put Myrtle & Holly, and some other things into a dish full of water, & sprinkle it all over ye house; They take of the sick persons cloaths and sprinkle his naked body; and sometimes they stretch themselves on the sick persons body, hands to hands, face to face &c. Sometimes after this cere= mony, the sick person riseth up on a sudden & walks about ye house, as if nothing had ailed him. When they are sick they hang over their Cabins where they lye some Cubits of their money, and the Doctor that cures them, has them for his reward: If there be two or three Doctors, they share it among ym. They never open a vein to bleed. They admire our know= ing ones distemper by feeling the pulse. When they are wounded, or bruised, they cut the flesh to make it bleed, & suck out the bruised blood. In several distempers and also