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They accompany the ceremony with a Song, and at intervals suck and pull with their teeth, with their force, so that the part of the body affected and all around becomes black and blue, before they give over. Every one of them, of the male sex, occasionally performs this office, and if the patient recovers, this is ascribed to the address of the most esteemed Physician. Those individuals who value themselves upon this pretended science, when the Patient is not under age or a woman, extort payment for their pains. Letting blood, even in the proper vein, with am Awl, pointed knife, pointed white Iron &c. is common to many of them. They are entirely ignorant of any kind of medical Herbs or Roots, and I believe the Country produces very few of either. The sick person, after having undergone this painful operation, dares not eat a piece of meat or any thing else, until

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