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308 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 99
This is the Medicine When They Urinate Milky (Substance)
FKEE TRANSLATION
Black gum (and) alder steeped with it, warm; they must drink
it all day; the second (day, until) noon; and the third (day until)
noon has not completed itself; the fourth (day), let them eat along
with the others; restricted (are during) four nights hot (food) and salt;
(intercourse between) the man and the woman is very bad.
^ explanation
The characteristic symptoms of this sickness were given as a discharge
of milky urine, preceded or accompanied by frequent dis-
charges of dark red urine, together with pains in the lower part of
the back and pelvic region, and perspiration about the private parts.
It is considered a more serious form of urinary disease than any
previously mentioned. The patient drinks a warm infusion of the
inner bark of unt'^kwa, Nyssa multiflora Wang., black gum; ttse'U,
Alnus rugosa (Du Roi) Spreng., smooth alder, the bark being taken
from the root just above the ground on the east side of the tree.
The patient drinks the medicine at intervals [ad libitum] during the
whole of the first day, until noon on the second day, until about 10
a. m. the third day, and until just before breakfast the fourth day,
which completes the course of treatment.
The taboo includes salt, hot food, and sexual intercourse.
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if a tooth comes oil to store it up with, E this, L they have
we'skg-'.i | Do-'jd sktN'tS"' (4 times)
been said (liab) beaver put a tootli
into my (jaw)
This is, When a Tooth Comes Out, to Throw it Away With
FKEE TRANSLATION
This is all that has to be said: "Beaver, put a tooth into my
jaw!" (4 times).
explanation
The knowledge of this bit of folklore was first obtained [by Mr.
Mooney] through a j'^oung mixed blood from the Cherokee Nation in
the west, who said that when, in early childhood, his milk teeth were
being replaced by permanent teeth his Cherokee mother had told
him to throw the loosened teeth upon ^^ the roof of the house, asking
the beaver at the same time to give him a new one instead. He could
not remember the details, but on asking Ay. about the matter he at