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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 29r
its irritation upon the ball of the eye, they believe fufficient to
rub off the membrane, and remove the caufe of the complaint.
~Chilblains may be fuppofed no unfrequent diforder with the
younger part of the Laplanders; and this, as well as f{pafms and
contraCtions of the limbs, from the feverity of the cold, is relieved
by an ointment which they extract from the cheefe made of rein-
deer’s milk, They heal and foften flefh wounds with the unpre-
pared gum which exudes from the fir-tree. Before they reduce a
diflocated or fractured bone, which they do with bandages (am-
putation of limbs being a practice of which they abhor even the
idea), they {wallow, in a drink, a piece of filver, or even brafs,
beaten into a powder; and they believe this potion to be of
great efficacy in forwarding the cure.
We have already mentioned the a¢tual cautery made ufe of by
the Laplanders for pains in the hands and feet. This will bring
to the recollection of our medical readers the moxa, which has
formerly been tried as a remedy in fits of the gout. The moxa is
a dry vegetable fubftance, brought from China and Japan, not un-
like the common plant mugwort: it is applied to the fkin, and
there fet on fire. What is ufed by the Laplanders for this pur-
pofe is the boletus fomentarius, Lin. Similar applications were in
ufe during the age of Hippocrates, and even employed by the
prince of phyficians himéelf.
The finew of the fore legs of the rein-deer is applied as a re-
medy for fprained ancles, or other ftrains of the legs, by binding
it round the part aggrieved: but a particular reftriction is to be
Pps 5 -obferved
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