No one ever attempted to remove a tumor except by external applications.
Those with which the natives are chiefly troubled are fatty and fibrous tumors; and as they all have the 'vis medicatrix naturae' in remarkable activity, I safely removed an immense number.

In illustration of their want of surgical knowledge may be mentioned the case of a man who had a tumor as large as a child's head.

This was situated on the nape of his neck, and prevented his walking straight.

He applied to his chief, and he got some famous strange doctor from the East Coast to cure him.

He and his assistants attempted to dissolve it by kindling on it a little fire made of a few small pieces of medicinal roots.