CXXVI1 The Introduédion. 
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tock it for the Belly-ach, and call’d ic fo. Her ordinary Phyfician 
returning to take care of her, | went no more near her, nor know [ 
what became of her. 
From fome parts of Guinea, as is before related, come Negros 
troubled with Worms, they are flat and long, fomething like the 
i Lumbricus Terreftris, and lodge amongft and in the mulcular Flefla. 
Sa ., ifaw one who had one of thefe Worms ia his Thigh, half an Jach 
the mufcu- of the end of it was hanging our, which was flat and blackilh, and 
lar Flefh there iffued out a thin Ichor by its fides. I was told thar the only 
ot Negroes Remedy for this Diftermper was to draw it out by degrees every day 
coming y iy \ y Gegrecs every day 
fiom fome fome upon a round piece of Wood, asa piece of Tape ct Ribbond, 
sashiatety After they have pulld it all out, they apply a Plaiftertoche part. | 
"was affured that if any part of this Worm, which is tender and very 
long, and requires great care in the management of it, fhould chance 
to break within the Skin, that there follows an incurable Ulcer. 
A Negro lufty Fellow, was taken ill of the Yaws, he had not been 
long from Guinea, and was all broke out into hard whitifh {wellings, 
fome greater, fome leffer, from the bigne{s of a Bean to that of a Pins 
) the Head, of which laft fize there were many which appear'd like the 
a Glands of the Skin fwell’d and white. When thefe Tumours are large, 
they are ufually white at top, from fome of the Cutuula and Hu- 
mours dried lying in Scales over it, and fometimes they weep ont an 
Ichor. At other times the Ulcers are much larger. They likewile 
complain fometimes of great pains in the Bones, and this Fellow, 
whom Icur’d, was broke our very much about the Penis, Scrotum, 
and Elbows. I flux’d him by Unétion in the Corner of an Out- 
Houle,feeding him with as much Watergruel as he could eat or drink. 
The Flux proceeding as it ought to do, he was quite clear’d of this 
filchy Diftemper, only on his Elbow he had one twelling, not quite 
dry, to which I applied calcin’d Vitriol, which made the Scales fall 
off, and heal as the reft. 
_ This Diftemper is thought to be contagious, and to be communi- 
cated from one to another, from Blacks to Whites, and from Parents 
to Children, but I cou’d n’t obferve it to be more or lefs contagious than 
the Pox. There are few Plancations without feveral of thele Difeas’d 
Perfons, who are ufually cur’d as above. Though ’tis commonly 
thoughe that Huxing does not cure without Relaple, yer I, by what 
Icould obferve, find it does, and do believe the return of this Dif- 
eafe comes from their not being thoroughly flux'd by anointing, of 
by being kept too warm, or wrong treated afterwards, whence {ome 
Remains of it ftaying behind in the Body, thefe Dregs by Degrees 
bring the fame Diftemperagain, 
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