The Employment of Setons in the District of Backergunge

a "got," but the word is not applied to the actual seton itself. For this, which is a piece of wood of the highly vaunted neem tree (Melia Azadirachta), another word has been coined, viz., " gooti." It is not easy to calculate the number of persons who employ this procedure, but 1 am probably nearly correct, after estimations made in the jail and elsewhere, that about 1 per cent, of the adult male population choose to treat themselves thus. The habit is practically confined to old and middle-aged men. Children and young women are never subjected to it. I have so far seen in my peregrinations through the district, only one woman wearing a "got." She was a very ancient, rheumatism-crippled dame at Batajore. Chronic rheumatism is the ailment, par excellence, for which this remedy is sought for by the patient and practised by the Kabiraj. But "gol" is also worn for other diseases, dyspepsia, "spleen," and even for cataract. One patient whom I see often in the bazaar here, wears it for elephantiasis of the leg on the affected