Now and then the juices of powerful herbs were used, but they were not needed for one so young and so wholesome in blood as Tayoga.
When the operation was finished the Onondaga lay back on his bed and smiled once more at the rough and rocky roof.
"Again you show signs of intelligence, Dagaeoga," he said.

"As you have learned to be a warrior, perhaps you can learn to be a medicine man also, not the medicine man who deals with spirits, but one who heals.
Now, as you have done your part, I shall do mine." "What do you mean, Tayoga ?" "I will resolve to be well.

You know that among my people the healers held in highest honor are those who do not acknowledge the existence of any disease at all.

The patient is sick because he has not willed that he should be well.

So the medicine man exerts a will for him and by reciting to himself prayers or charms drives away the complaint which the sick man fancies that he has.