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illness of the judge's father, he thought about curing the man of his illness, thinking if he were successful the judge would go easier on his son. Since the judge and the medical doctors were worried about the old man surviving the illness, especially if it went undiagnosed and untreated, the judge was ready to try anything and so he readily accepted the offer of the herbal doctor to cure his father.
The tribal doctor brought only three green leaves with him for the treatment. After the leaves were given to the patient for his oral consumption the patient slipped into a deep coma which lasted for several hours. When he awoke, hot milk was given to him under directions of the Bhil medicine man. Again the old man went into a deep coma and when he awoke a second time after several hours, he seemed to be released from the deathly grip of the illness.
During the next several weeks, however, some very distressing changes began to take place in the appearance of the old man. For one thing, all of the remaining teeth in his mouth became loose and fell out, and for another, the top layer of his skin, over his entire body, simply peeled away as if he were a molting snake. In addition to these rather mortifying changes, the old man lost all of his grey thinning hair.
Meanwhile, the old man felt younger and livelier in his step with each passing day in spite of the dramatic changes that his body was undergoing. When about three months had passed after the initial treatment with the
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