Show are the stories of strange south american native cures true by DR HENRY 11 RUSBY KUSBY columbia university will we scientists sat sailing ling for chili bring back with us when we w come out of the colombian wilderness after two years ot of exploration I 1 ame precious medicinal plant growing obscurely now on oil the mountain peaks of bolivia or among them the jungles of western brazil some other plant as priceless therapeutically as the cinchona shrub of the andes whose bark gives us quinine or the root of 0 the brought brou glit long ago a go from brazil these questions can be answered only by conjectures are the stones ries of strange native cures true just what we are going to try to find dout out for myself I 1 believe that unquestionably the south american indians understand the medicinal uses of rare plants which are unknown to our materia medica superstition witchcraft legend are so entangled with their actual and beneficial powers that a white man cannot hope to get at the truth of the thousand tales he lacars except by long study if among all the miracle taira cle we can find a few real remedies that will be as much as I 1 expect |