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disease on the eyes a little of the moisture derived from the slug called abō is injected into them.
The small-pox patient may eat roasted food, but the roasting must not be done in his house; meat and eggs he may not touch.
All purgatives are called julab. As such are employed, among other things, the pips of the pëunyeuha-fruit and a kind of castor-oil (minyeuʾ nawaïh) of native manufacture.
Ordinary diarrhoea (chirét) is treated with sour semi-ripe blinggè-fruits, or an extract of roasted buffalo-hide and roasted rice, both of which ingredients are first pounded fine.
Dysentery and cholera.Dysentery (biōh) is treated with opium, or with a compound of pounded unripe pisang klat (a kind of plantain with an astringent taste) and molasses[1].
In cholera[2] (taʿeun, mutah-chirét) and kindred ailments, the patient is given sugarcane juice mixed with a little powdered turmeric to drink, or else rice-water with some gambir, or extract of pounded betelnut (pinang), or the expressed juice of a pomegranate which has first been heated with the skin on. The sufferer is also cooled by constant bathing.
It is said by the natives that a common preliminary symptom of choleraic seizures is a violent pain in the arm or leg, as though some hard body under the skin were moving upwards. This is regarded as the prime cause of the complaint, and it is sought to counteract it by cupping or making an incision over the spot where the foreign body is supposed to be felt.
Fever.The feverish symptoms known as sijuëʾ-seuʾuëm (cold-heat) are treated with the expressed juice of chuëh-leaves, together with those of pisang talōn (= pisang raja), or with the bitter gummy sap of the baʾraja peunawa, called in Malay lidah buaya (crocodile's tongue) or simply with water in which seeds of the seulaséh (sělasih) are soaked. The patient must not bathe, but is occasionally bespued with water from another's mouth.
In deumam (continuous or remittent fever) nothing but tangkays or incantations are employed.
Sampòng.It is believed that the young suffer three times in their life from an indisposition called sampòng; first at puberty (sampòng chut), again when they come of age (sampòng peuteungahan) and finally when they have completed their growth (sampong rayeuʾ or sakèt ulèë neurayeuʾ =
