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188 the cure is given to the charms and incantations. Of the medicines contained in the collection I shall only mention four: The first is a love medicine, ekulo, a powdered mixture of seeds. When a wife becomes jealous of the other wives of her husband, she complains to her mother, who advises her to cook a chicken and in the broth to place some of this medicine, which, when her husband eats thereof, will compel him forever to love her above all the other wives. The second remedy is an emetic, asangu. This is frequently used, as, for example, when in the poison test a person becomes very sick, and the guilt has become fully established, the doctor will administer an emetic to save life. In cases of difficult labor, the woman is given a small piece of the bark of the oluvanga to chew. For rheumatism, ovihata, a mixed powder called omatoli, is used. George A. Dorsey.