Note 493 — THE WAMPANOAGS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An Ethnohistorical Study (continued 2)
Reading edition
There are reports of the use of sweating to alleviate the symptoms of the following: “the French disease”, “plague or smallpox”, “colds, surfeits, sciatica”, “pains fixed in the limbs”; Butler, pp. 12-13; Williams, pp. 211-12.