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oS:cHTs] 'i'HE SWIMMER MANUSCRIPT 209
This is the Medicine (for) When Their Breast Swells
Yuha-ahi (7 times).
Sharply
FREE TRANSLATION
Now then! the important thing is staying in the great lake.
Quickly it has arisen, facing us. Quicldy he '^^ has put it under (the
patient).
Now then! Ha, now you two have come to listen, you tv/o little
men, you two powerful wizards; in the sun land you two are staying.
From the great lake the important thing has arisen facing this way.
Quickly you two have forced the important thing to get on its feet.
His paths lie stretched toward the direction from where he started
and he shall never look back again. As he stops to rest at the four
successive gaps, it will happen to him that, roughly indeed, you two
will push him along as you go by. You two have caused him to
plunge back again into the very same lake from which he arose.
There he is now lodged to stay. He will never look back. Right
there he is compelled to stay. Sharply!
This is the medicine (for when) their breast swells. Fire is not
to be put down, however.
explanation
[This formula has been edited with notes and comments by Mr.
Mooney in his SFC, pp. 364-365.1
The only facts of interest which I found in Mooney 's notes which
were not incorporated in the paper just mentioned are that Da'kwa=
Dt!i, to cure the same ailment, used a warm infusion of the following
herbs
DiGa"'y's9'r)i', Collinsonia canadensis L., rich weed, stone root,
horse balm; fna'Do" GaN^Ga', Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Links,
walking leaf; skwo"'! u*'t'ona\ Asarum canadense L., asarabacca,
wild ginger; skwo*'li;stt''Ga, Hepatica acutiloba DC, liverleaf.
This infusion he applied four times before noon for four successive
mornings, giving the patient some of the liquid to drink each time to
cause vomiting. The whole plant was used, excepting in the case of
the DtGa-'y's9*r)i\ of which either the root or leaf might be taken.
^8 The disease-spirit.