Friday, September 19, 2008

Vincent van Gogh Almond Branches in Bloom painting

Vincent van Gogh Almond Branches in Bloom paintingJoseph Mallord William Turner The Grand Canal Venice paintingJohn Singer Sargent El Jaleo painting
McMaster’s house.
His recovery was slow. At first, days of lucidity alternated with delirium; then his temperature dropped and he was conscious even when most ill. The days of fever grew less frequent, finally occurring in the normal system of the tropics, between long periods of . Mr. McMaster dosed him regularly with herbal remedies.
“It’s very nasty,” said Henty, “but it does do good.”
“There is medicine for everything in the forest,” said Mr. McMaster; “to make you well and to make you ill. My mother was an Indian and she taught me many of them. I have learned others from time to time from my wives. There are plants to cure you and give you fever, to kill you and send you mad, to keep away snakes, to intoxicate fish so that you can pick them out of the water with your hands like fruit from a tree. There are even I do not know. They say that it is possible to bring dead people to after they have begun to stink, but I have not seen it done.”
“But surely you are English?”

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