He was then withdrawn from his steam bath and doused into the cold stream near by.

This treatment may have answered with the early ailments of the Indians.

With the measles or small-pox it would kill every time.
During my year on the Columbia River, the small-pox exterminated one small remnant of a band of Indians entirely, and reduced others materially.

I do not think there was a case of recovery among them, until the doctor with the Hudson Bay Company took the matter in hand and established a hospital.

Nearly every case he treated recovered.