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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations, Volume 2

Note 1160 — Chapter XXV · BUILDINGS, MEDICINE, BURIAL, PHYSICAL PECULIARITIES, AND CHARACTER OF THE MAYAS.

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'Curan viejas los enfermos ... y echan melezinas con vn cañuto, tomando la decoccion en la boca, y soplando. Los nuestros les hazian mil burlas, desuenteando al tiempo, que querian ellas soplar, o riendo del artificio.' Gomara, Hist. Ind., fol. 264; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vii.

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