I have found lunar caustic useful: a plaister of wax, and a little finely-ground sulphate of copper is used by the Arabs, and so is cocoa-nut oil and butter.

These ulcers are excessively intractable, there is no healing them before they eat into the bone, especially on the shins.
Rheumatism is also common, and it cuts the natives off.

The traders fear these diseases, and come to a stand if attacked, in order to use rest in the cure.

"Taema," or Tape-worm, is frequently met with, and no remedy is known among the Arabs and natives for it.
[Searching in his closely-written pocket-books we find many little mementoes of his travels; such, for instance, as two or three tsetse flies pressed between the leaves of one book; some bees, some leaves and moths in another, but, hidden away in the pocket of the note-book which Livingstone used during the longest and most painful illness he ever underwent lies a small scrap of printed paper which tells a tale in its own simple way.

On one side there is written in his well-known hand:--] "Turn over and see a drop of comfort found when suffering from irritable eating ulcers on the feet in Manyuema, August, 1870." [On the reverse we see that the scrap was evidently snipped off a list of books advertised at the end of some volume which, with the tea and other things sent to Ujiji, had reached him before setting out on this perilous journey.