Two women died in Bontoc in 1901 of beri-beri, called fu-tut. These
are the only cases known to have been there.
About ten years ago a man died from passing blood -- an ailment
which the Igorot named literally "in-is'-fo cha'-la or in-tay'-es
cha'-la." It was not dysentery, as the person at no time had a
diarrhea. He gradually weakened from the loss of small amounts of
blood until, in about a year, he died.
The above are the only fatal diseases now in the common memory of
the pueblo of Bontoc.
It is believed 95 per cent of the people suffer at some time, probably
much of the time, with some skin disease. They say no one has been
known to die of any of these skin diseases, but they are weakening and
annoying. Itch, ku'-lid, is the most common, and it takes an especially
strong hold on the babes in arms. This ku'-lid is not the ko'-lud
or gos-gos, the white scaly itch found among the people surrounding
those of the Bontoc culture area but not known to exist within it.
Two or three people suffer with rheumatism, fig-fig, but are seldom
confined to their homes.
One man has consumption, o'-kat. He has been coughing five or six
years, and is very thin and weak.
Diarrhea, or o-gi'-ak, frequently makes itself felt, but for only one
or two days at a time.
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