I have not heard of a single instance of jaundice.
Some elderly people are afflicted with asthma; and hoarsenesses now and then occur in the winter and spring.
The stone and gout are entirely unknown amongst the Laplanders.
Swellings of the lower extremities are uncommon, as these people are in the habit of swathing their legs, which renders them all slender and well shaped. All dropsical complaints indeed are very rare, though I did meet with one case of this kind.
Of tenesmus I happened to hear of but a single instance, though the Laplanders eat so much cheese and drink water.
Disorders in the stomach are not uncommon, which are frequently attended with diarrhœa, and in some years this disease is contagious.
The specimens of minerals which I had
collected in the course of my tour were now become numerous, and consisted of the following articles.
1. An alum, as I presume, of a club shape, without any taste, seeming as it were dissolved in fluor, from the mountains to the north of the lake Skalk, near Kiomitis. (See vol. 1. p. 267.)
2. Native alum in its own matrix; from the same place. (Alumen nativum. Syst. Nat. vol. 3. 101).