Every-Day Life in India : Illustrated From Original Photographs
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121 native mind that it is almost impossible to expel it or to replace it by anything more reasonable. Give a man a sticking-plaster for a sore on his foot, and after he has carefully applied it, he will ask you with unfeigned gravity, "What about diet?" The same important question has been asked of me times without number after such critical operations as apply- ing a few drops of glycerine for earache, a little ammo- nia for toothache, soap-Uniment for a sprain, or a cold- water bandage for a... trifling wound. Burning with a hot iron is another cure, second in importance only to dieting. The two may and often do go together, and there is scarcely a man, woman, or child, to be found who cannot show upon the face, breast, or other parts of the body, the permanent scars of the burning-iron. THE SUPERSTITIOUS NOTIONS connected with the cure of diseases are of the most di- verse and surprising kinds. Not long ago a Brahman came running after me as I was riding through a vil- lage, and asked me for medicine for what I thought from his description might be dyspepsia.
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