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vis'd her to wean her Child, both on her own, and the Childs ac. 
count, fhe being weak, and her Milk perhaps a0* very healihy, bue 
fhe would not. I advis'd her to a gentle Vormn, biter Dianghts, 
and what I moft relied on, a Steel Courfe, with which fhe reco- 
vered perfectly her Health. She was fometime alter taken Ill of a 
Quinfie, which by Bleeding and Purging was taken off, the {wel- 
ling was not very dangerous, being not fo much in the Throar, - 
as Mandibles and Cheeks. 
Of a fick- JT oveney, a very fenfible Negro Woman of Colonel Ballards, com- 
nels atStC- Blain’d very much of a great illnefs, at and about her Stomach, 
"with which fhe was always out of order. I gave her a Vomit of 
Inf uf. Croc. Metal. {weetned with Syr. Cariophyll. which working very 
well, fhe was cur’d of aj] her Indifpofitions had Jurk’d abouc her tor 
feveral years. When tough and phlegmatic humours opprefs the 
Stomach, ’tis hard to remove them but by a Vomit. The reafon 
is, becaufe the way out of the Stomach by the Oc/ophagus is {hort and 
Atraight, by the Guts ic islong, and thefe humours are apt to ftick 
in their many turnings and Cells. 
_ Sore Eyes, inflam’d, and painful, are very ordinary here. 1 was 
always the more fearful of an inflammation of the Eyes, in that [ 
have obferv’d moft Difeafes of the Eyes, and even fometimes a 
Of Inflam. Cataract to begin with an Inflammation there. I therefore imme- 
mation, diately order’d fuch perfons to be bled, and purg’d fo often as feem’d 
and other —requilite, which with bliftering in the Neck feldom mils‘d to cure 
the Eyes, any of them, unlefs che diftemper came by much Venery, which 
was not to be cur’d any other way but by thefe Medicines and Ab- 
ftinence from it. I ufed outwardly to drop into the Eyes a little 
Rofe-water, into which is put the fubtile powder of Lapis Cala- 
minaris, (7 Tutia, “Thele Powders are made fine by mixing them 
with Rofe- water, and-lerting the grofs powder fubfide, the fine and 
impalpable remaining in the Body of the water. Whites of Eggs 
beat up with Alum is good applied outwardly, fo is Lime-juice 
and water. But a Mucilage of P/yllium-Seeds, Quince-Seeds, Saffron, 
and Lin-Seed, is much more Anodine in hurts than any other. 
Any Powder in fuch a cafe grates the tender Eye, is very painful, 
aud increafes the Inflammation. Whites of Eggs ftick fo faft to 
the Eyelids, that the force ufed in pulling them off fometimes in- 
jures the Eye. 
Of 2 Terti- 
au with A Black Boy of Jobn Youngs, about twelve years of Age, was 
Worms, very ill of an Epidemic Tertian, there was very little intermiffion. 
he Corte. 1 gave him the Cortex Peruv. as ulually. He voided a great quan- 
Pew. tity of Worms by Stool, and was perfectly cured. 
Mrs, Bai- 
