handed to him; he is said to attend, invisibly of course, & perform that which he promised this (medecine, supposing it is one) should effect. _[This is a long & complex job, & I doubt much if I can get thro' with it without more of my blundering; but I shall risk blunders, omissions, & repetitions]_ Hence it is they always sing when they attend on a desperately sick person, amongst themselves, tho very rarely when they administer to the white. When any one is very sick, & that they be _called upon_, or perhaps, tho' rarely, ordered, in their dreams, by their Familiars, they sing, blow, & suck, alternately, & with such violence that one would think they wanted to to blow them to the d___l, or swallow them down their throats; but no, it is to force in the medecine, of which they have generally a mouthful, masticated into a pulp. or something near _salve_, sometimes: the suction business is to draw out the Devil; i.e the medicine, bone, stone, iron, brass, stick, or whatever they imagine it is that occasions the disease. If the complaint lies in any particular part, to that part it is they apply themselves most, & sometimes _only_: supposing the hip, knee &c. for there they imagine it is a worm or maggot gnawing them. But if the complaint is universal, that is the whole system be sick & debilitated, it is then the pit of the Stomach & the Temples; rubbing sometimes the wrist, the palms of the hands. & opposite the heart. This is very frequently done, & in the intervals the songs & rattler together, & often a