Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - General Remarks Concerning Lapland - Section XXII
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
290 ’ GENERAL REMARKS
SECTION XXII.
Of the Difeafes to which the Laplanders are fubject?, and the Reme-
dies they ufe—Of their Funerals.
HE fmall-pox has at times proved very fatal in Lapland, but
has not made its appearance there for many years. In ge-
neral the Laplanders enjoy the beft pofiible ftate of health, and
excepting the head-ach, and a few flight diforders, may be faid to
be free from difeafes. Inward complaints they pretend to cure by
fwallowing the blood of the feal and rein-deer as warm as poffible.
The tooth-ach they likewife relieve by drinking the feal’s blood:
this is but alate remedy, for formerly they knew no other appli-
cation than a fplinter from a tree ftruck with lightning, with
which the difeafed tooth was to be touched. It is remarkable
that the teeth of the Laplanders are often corroded by worms,
and that in a manner unknown to the inhabitants of other cli-
mates.
Their method of cure for a difeafe of the eyes, called the pin and
zweb, which is an imperfect ftage of a cataract, is fingular and cu-
rious, and hence is recommended by the miffionary to the Danifh
faculty of phyficians: it is effected by the introduétion of the fe-
diculus humanus (common loufe) within the eyelids, which, by
, its
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
