Life And Travels Of Mungo Park By Mungo Park With A Full Narrative Of Subsequent Adventure In Central Africa
















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But notwithstanding that longevity is uncommon among them, it appeared to
me, that their diseases are but few in number - Page 304
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But Notwithstanding That Longevity Is Uncommon Among Them, It Appeared To Me, That Their Diseases Are But Few In Number.

Their simple diet, and active way of life, preserve them from many of those disorders which embitter the days of luxury and idleness.

Fevers and fluxes are the most common, and the most fatal. For these, they generally apply saphies to different parts of the body, and perform a great many other superstitious ceremonies; some of which are, indeed, well calculated to inspire the patient with the hope of recovery, and divert his mind from brooding over his own danger. But I have sometimes observed among them a more systematic mode of treatment. On the first attack of a fever, when the patient complains of cold, he is frequently placed in a sort of vapour. This is done by spreading branches of the _nauclea orientalis_ upon hot wood embers, and laying the patient upon them, wrapped up in a large cotton cloth. Water is then sprinkled upon the branches, which descending to the hot embers, soon covers the patient with a cloud of vapour, in which he is allowed to remain until the embers are almost extinguished. This practice commonly produces a profuse perspiration, and wonderfully relieves the sufferer.

For the dysentery, they use the bark of different trees reduced to powder; and mixed with the patient's food; but this practice is in general very unsuccessful.

The other diseases which prevail among the Negroes are the _yaws_, the _elephantiasis_, and a _leprosy_ of the very worst kind.

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