[21] Parsons, _Taos Pueblo_, 59; Flores, in Urbina, _El Peyote y el Ololiuhqui_, 26; Rouhier (_Monographie_, 96) adds the Caxcane use “for swellings and spasms”; Hernandez, _De Historia Plantarum_, 3:70; Safford, _An Aztec Narcotic_, 295; Bennett and Zingg, _The Tarahumara_, 294; Hrdlička, _Physiological and Medical Observations_, 173, 242, 244, 250, 251; Lumholtz, _The Huichol_, 9; _Unknown Mexico_, 2:241-42. [22] Would pupil-dilation from peyote cause temporary “cures” satisfying the uncritical? [23] Radin, _Crashing Thunder_, 183, 196; Mooney, _The Mescal Plant_, 9. Lumholtz (_Unknown Mexico_, 2:157) himself confidently prescribed peyote for a scorpion-sting. [24] Beals, _Comparative Ethnology_, 131 (Acaxee); Rouhier, _Monographie_, 12, fn. 3 (Tlaxcala). The Kiowa witch Tonakat fixed a fireplace in the form of a turtle, the source of his power, and used a meeting once for shamanistic display, being shot with a cartridge and remaining unharmed, etc. A Caddo-Delaware tells of a famous Kiowa doctor who used similar tricks in doctoring a woman. He held a black handkerchief over her to see the location of the disease, dipped a feather in water, cut the skin and removed two 1½″ bugs, the wound healing immediately. Both popped when thrown into the fire, thus prognosticating her recovery from a twenty years’ illness. Wild Horse (Caddo-Delaware) said doctors did “wizard sleight-of-hand tricks” in meetings; “some Indians can make you believe you see things.” Some Tonkawa who visited the Kiowa about 1890 performed tricks in meeting like eating fire (Mooney, _Peyote Notebook_). [25] Lumholtz, _Unknown Mexico_, 2:241-42. [26] The suppression of peyote was sought under an act of Jan. 30, 1897 (29 Stat. 506), Sect. 6 of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 768-72), Sect. 11 of the same act, and Service and Regulatory Announcement No. 13, Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry (issued May 3, 1915)—all without success. Specific Federal anti-peyote bills were next attempted: Senate 1862 (65th Congress 1st Sess. Apr. 17, 1917), House of Representatives 10669 (64th Congress 1st Sess.), House of Representatives 4999 (65th Congress 1st Sess. June 12, 1917), House of Representatives 2614 (65th Congress 2nd Sess. May 13, 1918-Oct. 7, 1918). These all failed of passing. An anti-peyote proviso attached as a rider to Appropriations bill House of Representatives 8696 of March 28, 1918 was deleted before passage, under pressure from a powerful and alert Indian lobby. Later bills were House of Representatives 398 (66th Congress 1st Sess.), House of Representatives 2071 (about March 29, 1924), House of Representatives 5057 (not passed by Senate, but amended as:) House of Representatives 5078 (about Jan. 24, 1924, 68th Congress 1st Sess.)—all defeated. The Senate bill 1399 of Feb. 8, 1937 is pending at the present writing.