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are generally healthy, have beautiful white teeth, remarkably regular and well formed.  They use no medicines, I believe, the only remedy for disease being "kneading' the body or part affected.  I have often seen them 'punching' and men troding on the stomach and breast to expel pain.

My Dear Sikles [[??]]
The above has been hastily thrown together, more in the form of notes to be reduced to something like a memoir, by [[??__]] than as a connected narrative.  If it is of any service, use it, as you see fit.

G.M.
(Lieut. Sylvester Mowry, Third Artillery)
Fort Yuma Cal.
March 23rd, 1856(?)

P.S.  Wirth tells me the [[Whip??]] disease is quite common and scrofulous, not syphilitic, and that pneumonia is common in the winter owing to the great change from extreme heat to sometime freezing cold.