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Show Medicine In (be Andes. An Interesting chnrncter frequently met with In the Andes Is the calltigunyas. or Indlnn doctor. He Is every where, nnd Is trader, tinker, pedler, fortune teller, conjurer con-jurer nnd magician. His knowledge ot botany Is as mysterious as It Is comprehensive, compre-hensive, nnd tho most astonishing stories nre told of his cures, Mr. Meier, the United States conml nt Mn'l:uua, tells n story which Mr, V, 13. Curtis repents In his book, "lletween tho Andes nnd tho Oceun." A mnn In I.fmn wns Ivlng nt tho point or denth with n disease which battled phialclnna who brought dlplomns rrom the medical schools of Paris and Vienna. One evening two of tho physicians stood talking ot tho ense nt tho sick mini's door, without noticing a humble, barefooted bare-footed Indian who leant! ugnlnst tho wall. As they demited the Indian entered en-tered the pntio nnd asked to see the sick man. Tho family referred him to tho attending at-tending doctor, who, amazed at hl t-daclty t-daclty rxclalmed "W.lmt do von know about n disease that puzzlis Ho best phialclana In IH have herbs th.it will euro every- IH thing, ' the cilllagu.iina, H The doctor smiled In scorn nnd turned JM nwuy. The Indian iipeuid his puck, took H from a paper u slnglo lenf nnd handed It fM to thn pillule Inn, asking him to smell It. ;H He did so, und itistuntll his noso begin JJH to bleid, an he was tumble to stop It, 'H 'llie Indian stood stoll. Il hi for u time, H thin haiiilid him iiuothu leaf suing, tH "Smell that mid the bleidlng will stop." (H The lesult was what Im promised, nnd IH tho physician was Inter. stc.l. In the end ,H tho lalliKU i)iix shvv the sick man. Ho H selected hoi In fiolil Ids stuck, browed it JH tea, und gale It to the patient, and tho ZH man vH |