As the maxim of “No cure, no pay” is accepted by both doctor and patient, worthless remedies are sifted out, and the high fee often paid for a cure tends in the same direction. The Materia Medica of the Kaffir is apparently collected at any time, and they observe no ceremonies in collecting it, nor do they take note of the seasons, moon phases, &c., in so doing. In contrast to what one finds in the Folk Lore of other savage races, the Kaffir tribes appear to take very little heed to the phases of the elements. They have no astronomical knowledge and except in some few authentic cases of eclipse of sun or moon, carry out their daily life uninfluenced by sun, star, or moon. Perhaps the only seasonal practice known is the habit of the Fingoes in early spring, of taking an emetic, often very strong and lowering the system. The King is the chief Doctor, but with this exception anyone may become a medicine man or woman. Domestic remedies are much used amongst the commonality, but such things as appeals to saints or deities do not take place, for the Kaffir has no saint or deity. Few Surgical Instruments are used. Knives and needles for scarifying: a cupping glass of cowshorn about 6 or 8 inches long are about the only instruments used. The cupping glass is used thus. The skin is scarified by needles and the larger end of the horn placed over the wounds. Suction by the mouth is then exerted at the smaller end through which a small hole has been bored. It is the practice of the natives to attend their sick at home and except in known infectious cases e.g. Small pox, amaas, &c., they are certainly not avoided in any way: quite the contrary, many visits are paid by sympathising friends and much assistance offered by them. Incurables are usually looked on as pensioners of the kraal and charitably treated. Deformed infants, that is, those born deformed, are generally got rid of by order of the chief: usually by leaving them in the open at night when carnivora make short shrift of them. In addition, there are several minor abnormalities that are looked upon as evidence of the child being a witch child, and rendering it likely to be got rid of in a similar way or even openly destroyed. Such conditions for instance, as hare lip, obvious squints, born with teeth, arrival of the upper incisors before the lower, are looked upon with grave suspicion. In case of a death taking place, the hut is burned down, and the spot whereon it stood obliterated as much as possible: it being considered bewitched and avoided in consequence.