, 1899-11-02
INDIAN DOCTOR
HAT CAN CURE ALL DISEASES.
J One Knows Their Secrets-Use Herbs
to Heal. and Have n Variety of Side
O~ccupations

ri OccuputtOhs.
IA very Interesting character fire.
hently met with in the Andes is the
hllaguayas. or Indian doctor. as hi is
Is miliarly known to the people.
81 He is IA conjuror and n magician. and
q hes all sorts of tricks by sleight-of-
land. He relieves persons and animals
thai are bewitched; he sings sentimen-
IN and patriotic songs, and improvises
al suit occasions, like the minstrels that
EIr Waiter Scott tells us about. and
<he troubadours of ancient Spain, but
<hese are only incidental diversions to
6ccupy time and increase his popular
/fy and his income. His chief business
- that of n physician both for mental
Ind physical ailments and for both
nan and beast. If n COW or a donkey
IS sick he serves as n veterinary sur
econ; If distemper invades the llamas
or foot rot the sheep he has remedies
HAT are effective. and the natives de-
bend upon these wandering Arabs of
Die Andes to cure them Of all diseases.
Bis knowledge of botany is as mystic
riOus as 1t is comprehensive. and the
most astonishing stories are told of his
lures.
MI. Meier, the United States consul
I 4ioiitiido, ShNS TN III years aSD
D friend of his in Lima was lying at
The point of death with a disease which
baffied physicians who brought diplo-
pnas from the medical schools of Paris
And Vienna. One evening. after n con
tultation, two of them stood talking of
Die case at the sick mans door with
but noticing n humble barefooted In
Liam who leaned against the wall. As
'fhey departed the Indian entered the
patio and asked to see the sick man.
The family referred him to the attend
Ing physician, who, amazed at his au-
dacity. exclaimed:
what do you know about a disease
that puzzles the best physicians in
Iima?"
Il have herbs that will cure every
|thing.' said the callaguayas.
The doctor smiled in scorn and
turned away. The Indian opened his
pack, unfolded a little paper and hand
led a single leaf to the physician. asking
|him to smell it. As the doctor did so
his nose began to bleed and. the flow
|of blood could not lie checked. The
Indian doctor took from his pack n
Deaf of another kind and told the white
physician to hold that to his nose. and
having done so the bleeding topped
|ns suddenly as 1t began. The physician.
jim view of this demonstration of the
Indians power. gave him permission
TO treat his patient. The callaguayas
Ihereupon brewed a tea and gave it to
sick man.. who soon recovered.
Other stories of a similar sort are
bold in the interior and the American
miners in the mountains of Peru and
Bolivia, who are often afflicted with
Climatic fevers, have the greatest con-
'fidence in the efficacy of the remedies
and the skill with which they are adj
ministered by these migratory medi-
cine men,. Their botanical knowledge.
however, has never been fathomed by
science. They preserve the greatest Sc
crecy concerning the herbs they carry
in their pack and the source from
which they obtain them.
There have been various stories
written about the stealing of the Bal
tmore and Ohio Rail Road engines
at Martinsburg, w. Va, during the
rebellion and their transfer across the
country for service on southern rail-
roads by Col. Thomas Sharp, who is
still living in Ohio. Recently, an Of
fetal of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
Road a some inquiries of old en-
"StS az wa . -
the time the incident happened and
they a that on June 10, 1851, 200
men of Genl Stonewall Jackson's
command were detailed to destroy the
Baltimore and Ohio's equipment at
Martinsburg. They piled wood and
coal over Al engines and nearly 400
cars and then set fire to them. Only
ten or twelve of the engines, however,
were seriously damaged, and these not
by the fire. but because the water was
first let out of the boilers. Col. Sharp
arrived in Martinsburg on August IS,
1861. and remained there until the fol-
lowing March. engaged in removing
engines, machinery. etc. He took
eight engines across the country over
the turnpike. either to Staunton, Win
chester or Strasburg, land there are
some historians who disagree on this
init 80 horses being required to haul
mach engine. He also removed all the
duplicate parts Of engines and cars
and all the rough iron at the station.
and took away all machinery and
tools which were afterward Used in the
Southern arsenals. The country around
Martinsburg is extremely hilly and the
work of getting the engines over the
country roads required considerable
engineering ability. 1t has been cur
rently reported in late years that one
of the locomotives was the Winans
camel-back No. SO which at that time
was numbered II. but Col. Sharp did
not care for this class of engines and
took only ten wheel and passenger en-
'gines. There was only one eight wheel
locomotive taken and that was No. "a.
Some years after the war Col. Sharp
was employed on the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road as Master OF Trans
portation.
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