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Of the Difeafes I obferved in Jamaica, and the Method 
Ly which I ufed to Cure them. 
Efore I conclude this Introduction, I think it neceflary to give 
an Account of the Difeafes of Famaica, and how | endeavour'’d 
torelievethem. This may be uleful to fome, and J am fure would 
have beentome, had 1 been fo fortunate before my going thither, as 
to have met with any fuch Obfervations. was told that the Difeafes of 
this place were all different from what they are in Europe, and to be 
treated in a differing Method, This made me very uneafic, left by 
ignorance I fhould.kill inflead of curing, and put me on trying with 
the utmuft caution the Remedies and Methods I had known effectual 
in Europe, which ina very little time, I found to have great fuccels 
on the Difeafes there. My Medicines had the better operation, be- 
caufe people had a belief.1 could help them, and {ubmitted to the 
taking Remedies in the order they were prefcribed without changing 
the Medicines: altering the.Method, or judging. harfhly in cafe che 
Perfon died. Indeed, ‘at farft,. che Inhabitants would {carce truft me 
in the management of the leaft Diftemper, till their obfervation. of 
the good effects the European method had in the Duke of Albemarle’s 
numerous Family, in the fame Difeafes, brought chem to make trial 
of what I could do with fome of the meaner fort, accounted in de- 
fperate Conditions. _ I fhall give fome of thefe Obfervations botla 
in the Voyage thither, and during my abode there, in as: few 
words as I can, chiefly relating Matters of Fact, whereby, aba- 
ting fome very few Difeafes, Symptoms, ¢c, from the diver- 
firy of the Air, Meat, Drink, ec. any Perfon who has feen 
many fick People, will find the fame Difeafes here as in Europe, 
and the fame Method of Cure. For this reafon. [| have puc down 
fome very ordinary Obfervations and Methods, that this matter may 
be very plain, For my own part I never faw a Difeafe in Jamaica, 
whichI had not met with in Europe, and that in People who never 
had been in either Indies, excepting one or two ; and {uch Inftances 
happen to People practifing Phyfick in England, or any where elfe, 
that they may meet, amongft great numbers, with a fingular Dil- 
eale, that they had never {een before, nor perhaps meet after with a 
parallel inftance. , 
Of aChole Captain Nowel aged about forty, Choletick, who had drunk very 
ra = hard, and was very thin of Flefh, fent co me, he was ill of a Che- 
want 0 | 
Appetite lera Morbus, Vomiting, and going often to Stool. I found hin 
bye, weak, not able to bear any farther Evacuation, I gave him there- 
fore 
