[492] Winslow, pp. 365-66.
[493] There are reports of the use of sweating to alleviate the symptoms of the following: “the French disease”, “plague or smallpox”, “colds, surfeits, sciatica”, “pains fixed in the limbs”; Butler, pp. 12-13; Williams, pp. 211-12.
[494] Gookin, p. 154; Wood, p. 84.
[495] Wood, p. 84.
[496] Frank G. Speck, “Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians,” PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS (Paris, 1917), p. 303.
[497] Williams, p. 78. There is not a great deal of specific information on the herbal remedies used by the Wampanoags and their neighbors. Writing of herbal remedies over the entire Northeastern Algonquian area, Speck notes that there is variation from area to area and probably among curers within a single area as to what herb was used for what symptom.
[498] Gookin, p. 154; Mayhew, letter in “The Light Appearing More and More Towards the Perfect Day, etc.”, Henry Whitfield, compiler, Massachusetts Historical Society, COLLECTIONS, Ser. 3 IV (Boston, 1834) p. 202; Williams, pp. 212-13; Winslow, pp. 357-58; Wood, p. 84.
[499] Williams, p. 210; Winslow, pp. 313, 317-18, 362-63.
[500] Williams, pp. 152, 212-13; Winslow, pp. 357-58.
[501] Wood, pp. 92-93.