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.  It is most common when the locusts swarm over the country, and the people eat them abundantly for several days.  They say no one, not even a babe, ever died of diarrhea.

Two of the three prostitutes of Bontoc, the cast-off mistresses of Spanish soldiers, have syphilis, or na-na.  Formerly one civilian was afflicted, and at present four or five of the Constabulary soldiers have contracted the disease.

Lang-ing’-i, a disease of sores and ulcers on the lips, nostrils, and rectum, afflicted a few people three or four years ago.  This disease is very common in the pueblo of Ta-kong’, but is reported as never causing death.

Goiter, fi-kek’ or fin-to’-kel, is quite common with adults, and is more common with women than men.

Varicose veins, o’-pat, are not uncommon on the calves of both men and women.

Many old people suffer greatly with toothache, called “pa-tug’ nan fob-a’.”  They say it is caused by a small worm, fi’-kis, which wriggles and twists in the tooth.  When one has an aching tooth extracted he looks at it and inquires where “fi’-kis” is.

They suffer little from colds, mo-tug’, and one rarely hears an Igorot cough.

Headache, called both sa-kit’ si o’-lo and pa-tug’ si o’-lo, rarely occurs except with fever.

Sore eyes, a condition known as in-o’-ki, are very frequently seen; they doubtless precede most cases of blindness.

The Igorot bears pain well, but his various fatalistic superstitions make him often an easy victim to a malady that would yield readily to the science of modern medicine and from which, in the majority of cases, he would probably recover if his mind could only assist his body in withstanding the disease.