A good-natured old woman, who attended me, wished me to try many odd remedies.

A common practice is, to bind an orange-leaf or a bit of black plaster to each temple: and a still more general plan is, to split a bean into halves, moisten them, and place one on each temple, where they will easily adhere.

It is not thought proper ever to remove the beans or plaster, but to allow them to drop off, and sometimes, if a man, with patches on his head, is asked, what is the matter?
he will answer, "I had a headache the day before yesterday." Many of the remedies used by the people of the country are ludicrously strange, but too disgusting to be mentioned.

One of the least nasty is to kill and cut open two puppies and bind them on each side of a broken limb.

Little hairless dogs are in great request to sleep at the feet of invalids.
St.Fe is a quiet little town, and is kept clean and in good order.
The governor, Lopez, was a common soldier at the time of the revolution; but has now been seventeen years in power.