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the Fever .Very often in this, as well as in the Belly-ach, there is an in- 
fiammation in the Guts, which occafions a Gangreen if not timely reme- 
died. This appears frequently upon the Diflections of difeafed Bodies, 
I have not only feen this in Men, Women and Children, but in 
Horfes, I! ufed to order Rice to be boil’d in Water for ordinary 
Drink, and the Rice eat with Milk, as alfo frequenily to give De- 
coftum Album for the ordinary drink of the Patient, or fome Creta al- 
bifima, or fine Chalk powdered, and made the fame way into a 
Drink as the Hartfhorn Calcin’d in the Decoftum Album is wont to 
be us'd. 1 would put to it fome timesBolus Armen. and likewile 
ive half an Ounce of thefePowders twice or thrice a day, and 
ufually in the Evenings a Bolus of Diafcordium or Ther. Andr. with 
an eafie Opiat of liquid or folid Laud. according to the Age of the 
Patient. If che Loolenefs continued long, it ufually wafhed away 
the Mucus inteftinalis corroded the Guts, and ended ina Dyfentery, 
for which I give, after bleeding feveral times, the fame Medicines, 
as fora Diarrhea. Ic is very ordinary after eating Shell-fifh, as Con- 
ches, Oifters or Crabs, by people thrown on Cayos, Delert Iflands 
or Rocks by Shipwrack, and feeding on thefe for their only fufte- 
nance, to fall into Fluxesand Loofenefles, greater or lefler according 
to the time they have continued on fuch places, I had one under my 
care, who had been Shipwrackt fo on fome Cayos on the North fade 
of Hifpaniola, going to the great Plate Wreck, whom I could very 
{carcely recover with all the aboyefaid methods feveral months per- 
fifted in, and with Bees Wax inwardly given. He cook alfo Rhu- 
barb in Powder without fuccefs, On taking of the Wax form’d into 
Pills ic came away by Stool the fame way that it was taken in, 
without much alteration. I faw once in Jamaica in the latter end 
of a Phtbifis one Dram of Rhubarb, with five of Terra Sigillata, 
fome Confeét. de Hyacinth. and Cinamon-water, do very well when 
nothing elfe could ftop a dangerous Diarrhea, but the vertue of it 
only continued for fome fmall time. 1 have known in Epidemic 
Dylenterics Flower boil’d in Milk, with fome Wax {crap’d into it, do 
very great Cures. But by the abovelaid Medicines, fome, or all 
of them, [have cur’d hundreds in Jamaica of thefe Diftempers. Pa- 
per boil’d in Milk was us’din France, in Diarrbaas infefting the At- 
my, with very great fuccefs. ‘This I was aflur'd by an Officer in the 
French Army at Toloufe, 
Mrs, Efalftead, aged about forty years, of a clear Complexion, 
was very much troubled wich flufhings in her Face, and {mall lumps, 
which by drinking Water, or cool Drinks, which fhe thought would Of Aue 
remedy them,’ fhe grew worle. I order’d herto drink as much*Wine as 251 ‘° 
: Face, 
ufual, and to be bled, after which fhe was purged with Extr. Ru y ace 
ed, alter wal i 
