OCR Text |
Show INDIAN CURE-ALL DRASTIC Apache Indians living on their reservations in Arizona have a cure for physical ills, but it differs greatly from the cures prescribed pre-scribed by the government physicians. To add to the worries of the physicians and hinder the fight against disease on the reservations reser-vations the Indians have the highest regard for their own cure and none at all for those of medical science. Regardless of what ill an Apache might be suffering from he is placed in a pit around which are built fires. When, the heat becomes more than the sufferer suf-ferer can bear he rushes from the pit and plunges into the nearest stream. According to the tribal teachings the fire of the pit drives Out the evil spirits which are causing the malady and the water cleanses the body and prevents their return. |