Native Medical and Surgical Practice in Marwar

irregular practitioners of medicine and surgery, who occupy to them the same relative position as quacks and bone-setters to European physicians and surgeons. The individuals referred to may be of any caste or profession, but are peculiar in one circumstance, that their skill has been exercised in the same line from father to son?often for many generations. The Brahmins, being as ready as their neighbours to earn money by the use of charms and prayers, make a good thing out of the superstitious fears of the inhabitants of Marwar. Three or four cases in which men seem to have acquired some notoriety have lately come before me.