One of the very few medicines that it is absolutely necessary to keep under lock and key is sulphur, which is well known to them as an unfailing skin remedy when mixed up with butter. Our cook once bribed one of my little assistants to smuggle some away for him, and being misled by the similarity in appearance, the lad gave him iodiform instead. This he mixed up into an ointment and smeared well all over his body. As he sent up dinner that evening iodiform was as pronounced as oil is in a German table d’hote. It was soup à l’iodiform, viande à l’iodiform, confection à l’iodiform, café à l’iodiform, in fact there was no getting away from it. When we left the table in despair we were like a chemist’s laboratory. As for ideas of hygiene, these are absolutely absent from the native’s mind. When a person is very ill, regardless of her station in life, she is carried into the dirtiest and smallest hut. This is soon crowded up with well-meaning and sympathetic friends, whose one idea of condolence seems to be to assure the invalid that she is on the point of dying. The hut continues filling up till the only inlet for fresh air (the cramped doorway) is entirely blocked up, by which time the condition and atmosphere of the hut becomes so indescribable that it is a wonder anyone comes out alive. These things suggested to my mind that a few elementary lessons on hygiene might perhaps prove beneficial, so, taking to my afternoon class a diagram of the human body, I described to them the anatomy of the body, blood circulation, &c. Their interest and surprise were great. They had always imagined that blood circulated from the head. This was their argument for cutting their heads in cases of fever; they reasoned that malaria was an over-heating of superfluous amount of blood, so they must let out some. At first they were inclined to doubt the soundness of the new theory of circulation from the heart, and asked “can a river flow up, does it not always flow down?” “What about a spring?” said I. They thought for one moment, and then answered “The European’s wisdom has overcome ours.” Then a new difficulty struck them, how was it in the case of women, for they had no hearts. Their old King Kabarega, when he killed off his wives, had cut open some, and never found one with a heart. So the statement had become an accepted fact with them. How could they have believed such an error! They also imagined that mind was tucked away in the heart, and did not in the least associate brain with intellect. Poor woman, minus heart, therefore minus mind, was very poorly endowed. Their attention and interest were very keen, and did not seem to diminish when the moral was applied in the shape of ablutions, fresh air, and the care of the body being essentials to health.