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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, No.17-18
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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heart. Bufagin and adrenalin when combined with a milky sub-stance, exuded from the skin of a toad, form a deadly poison. An arrow tipped inthis poison and shot into a tiger or deer will kill it immediately, acting at once onthe heart and blood vessels. The skin of a toad is. and has been for centuries, a com-mon remedv for dropsy in China and among oriental peoples. They also apply thetoads skin to stop bleeding. Now ^ve learn for the first time, according to_ Science,of the discovery of wcnierful medcinai properties in thi skin and secretions of thetoad. So that the scientist of to-day, after clo?e observation and study, admits thatprimitive man evolved from meditation and exrerience much valuable informationtouching the curative properities of plants and extracts, confirmin-r the statement ofHerbert Spencer that the scientist does today accurately and intelligently what themen of early times did carelessly and incompletely. SHorace, Epod., I.ib. V. ;(8 AKCH^.OLOGICAL REPOET. j^^^:
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Turtle Rattle (Schis-chi-kue). ARCH^OLOaiCAL ItKlOllT. :W in the eighteenth »ciitui-y, Watertoii assures us, Iarsou Hvans, tlie Welshman,was roughly hiin<llr(l hy an i-nraged spirit solely because lie had forgotten a fumiga-tion in his \\itch-\\(ii-k. A tVw ccnl lilies ago Kuropean clicjlera was believed to lie hidden in volcanicmountains and lo Ijc i-clcascd hy eruptions. Many claimed to have escaped thepestilence by sleeping with their he;ids due south. In Russia during the terribleepidemic six years ago. the jjcople would not trust the doctors, whom they acttiallyaccused of causing the disease, but drank a loathsome mixttire of tar, rosin andpetroleum as a picxeiitative, and fired guns from their doors and windows toscare the demon of ( holera away. Among all peoples and among all classes super-stition and fear of 1 he unknown and mysterious exist. We are not then surprisedto read tliat the Ainericaii Indian was dominated by an intense fear of diseaseand resorted, when natural

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