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Burōt is treated by the application of a paste made of white onions and the leaves of various trees, especially the reudeuëb (Mal. dadap = erythrina); or else the scrotum is rubbed with the juice obtained by pounding up the buds of the mané-tree, mixed with lime. The patients are also directed to bathe early in the morning and to produce retching by inserting the finger in the mouth, in order that "what has sunk may rise again"!
Affections of the joints.Pains in the joints are treated in a peculiar manner. One or two hoofs are obtained in an unbroken state from some one who is killing a buffalo or ox; from these the marrow (utaʾ tuleuëng) is extracted and rubbed on the part affected, or mixed with water and given to the patient to drink.
Swellings caused by a fall or blow and broken limbs are dealt with as follows: some hot ashes or salt or a smooth heated brick are rolled up in a cloth and continuously rubbed (teuʾuëm) on the injured part under heavy pressure. Another method is the laying on of compresses similarly folded up in a cloth (barōt).
Pain in swallowing is called kawé lhan (kawé = a fish-hook), and is treated by giving the patient water to drink in which has lain for some time a fish-hook which has been found in the maw of a fish.
Gonorrhea.For gonorrhea (sakét sabōn) the cure is to drink water mixed with soap, preferably the kind which the hajis bring back from Arabia[1]. Another remedy is pine-apple juice mixed with yeast, which we have already noticed as a specific against the fecundity of women[2], or a solution of powdered white sea shells mixed with alum and camphor.
Toothache.In diseased and hollow teeth is placed a mixture of three kinds of vegetable sap (geutah), that of the asan-tree, the keupula or sawō-tree, and the leaves of the nawaïh or castor-oil plant. For toothache or faceache a sort of medicinal cigar is smoked, the rukòʾ stawan (Mal. sěriawan). These cigars have for their covering leaves paper or pieces of plantain-leaf, and within a mixture of various finely-pounded leaves, such as those of the grupheuëng agam (Mal. langgundi = vitex trifolia), grupheuëng inòng, nawaïh (ricinus), rihan (resembling sélasih), glinggang, peundang, adat agam, adat inòng, meuraʾ, keusab rayeuʾ, keusab chut and pladang; some opium, a little of the resin called mò, some saffron (kōmkōma), a few foreign drugs such as ganti and meusui, some camphor and tree-cotton. There must
