Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

I02 NOTE ON DISEASES OF THE ABORIGINES iart
tion about it than that "it had only come twice."
The only thing that could be found out about it,
besides, was that nobody attacked by it escaped with
his life. It was further stated that it had arisen in
consequence of the neglect of Pie's command never
to stay more than five days in one place. This
command, however, only applied to the men.^
Vaughan-Stevens gives Semang names for many
other diseases, but in almost every case fails to
translate or identify them.
II.
—
Sakai.
The foregoing remarks appear to be as applicable,
generally speaking, to the Sakai as to the Semang.
At all events, the Sakai have the same dread of smallpox
and the same liability to ulcers and skin diseases,
of which latter Hale (p. 288) distinguishes three kinds
(" Kurap," " Kurap ayam," and " Kudis "), the pre-
valence of which he ascribes to the fact that the Sakai
"very seldom bathe." ^ He also mentions^ headache
and stomach-ache as being diseases which are prayed
against by the Sakai. De Morgan (ii. 717) mentions
fevers (which are cured by the use of crushed
" langsat " stones), colic, diarrhoea (for which calcined
bones are used), dysentery, " kurab," and "wounds,"
which latter are dressed with sugar-cane pulp, bound
with a strip of bark-cloth.
III.
Jakun.
Blandas.—There are no very special remarks to be
made with regard to the diseases of the Blandas
tribe. Some individuals suffered greatly both from
1 -SVV Vaughan-Stevens, iii. io2. ii. 717; Brau de Saint - Pol Lias,
2 The two latter are ringworm and and other writers,
itch. Cp. De Morgan in L' Homme, '^ Hale, p. 301.