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304 seven times. Then add twenty-two other ingredients of equal parts. This is said to heal all kinds of poisoned wounds.

Then follows a recipe for an external application in the form of a paste or poultice, consisting of the eyes of vultures, crows and cats; and three kinds of animal deposition found on trees. These having been intimately united, then take nine wax candles, and place them on as many floats made of plantain stalk or leaf, each ornamented with flowers. Then the doctor is to take nine salungs (each equal to fifteen cents), nine handfuls of rice, nine ceri leaves, and nine betel nuts, and make an offering of them one on each float or altar to the Teacher of Medicine. Then he is to take the residue, rub together, dry in the sun, and make into slugs. Then gild the slugs and rub them up in a little water, und apply to the wound.

Following the above is a direction for an enchantment with a view to call the snake to suck out the poison of the wound which it has inflicted, viz.: Take proof spirits three bottles. Let the doctor officiating repeat the form of the incantation. Then let him drink one of the bottles of spirits and enchant over it. If the snake does not come, let him take a second bottle and proceed in the same way. If on drinking the third bottle, with an enchantment, the snake does not come, the patient must die. In case the snake comes, let the doctor take three cowries in his hand, and then rehearse one form of the enchantment, and then another seven times repeated for the purpose of charming the snake to come to the left side of the doctor; for if he comes to the right side a contention will ensue. Then let the