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is plain the spirit was stronger than his "medicine" or also that another evil spirit had entered. Should the invalid recover he is a great doctor. & his medicine is all-powerful. "What fools!' we exclaim, "to be this deluded," but, does not a very similar confidence exist among our enlightened brethren? Rattles are not used but "puffs" often have a similar effect. The "Weechastah man wakun?" is unknown spirit, wonderful, mystery, but M.D.s are manufactures by the gross? from materials inferior to many an Indian - fern leaves are considered peculiarly appropriate to the presence of the man of mystery & are therefore strewn upon the interior of the lodge, The medicine man, in an Indian community is looked upon as the great