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In opening the eyes of the savages to the goodwill of the Government and the blessings of civilization, nothing can surpass medical treatment. By means of it, they can be rendered docile, and at the same time their welfare can be promoted.

The aborigines, who were ignorant of any remedies for maladies exepting for the superstitions use of certain herbs and plants or resorting to weird incantations, have come to learn the wonderful efficacy of scientific medicine, and some patients now even enter hospitals of a modern type for treatment. All this shows that they are gradually advancing in the direction of civilization. 18