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Fohn Parker, about Thirty five years of age, a lufty full-blooded 
Fellow, was much given to drink, He had been taken ill’ of the 
Epidemic continual Fever, reigning at firft when I came to the 
Ifland, and recovered, as others out of it, of which before. Soon 
Of a Me- after he committed a great debauch in Rum Punch, after it lying 
ee efi,e onacold Marble Floor. He fell from thefe caufes into a Mania, 
drinking fo that he was obferv'd to {peak and act very incoherently, and to 
a Rum- get up in the night, ec, His rage increasd to a very higly degree, 
nach ‘and he died in a very few days, notwithftanding all the methods 
ufually followed in thefe cafes. 
Roger Flower, 2 Baker, a ftrong Man, of about Forty five years 
of age, of a Sanguine Complexion, and Plethoric, was much given 
to drink Sengury, or Wine, Sugar andWater in the morning early, 
continuing tll night, thereby endeavouring, as he thouht, to quench 
his thirft, and relieve his Spirits. He was taken very ill of a Cho- 
OF @ Cho [era Morbus, in which his vomitings were very violent. After a fuffi- 
from the cient Evacuation by Vomit and Stool, help’d on by thin Water. 
famecaufe. gruel, and Chicken-Broath, I endeavour'd to ftop them with Lauda- 
num, When I thought his Stomach and Guts fufficiently wafh’d. This 
reliev'd for fome {mall time, as i¢ never miffed the Cure of many 
others fo Difeafed, but he after fome hours fell ill again with Vo- 
miting anda Phrenfie. I endeavour'd what I could to remedy botk 
the one and the other, but he grew more outragious, and notwith- 
ftanding bliftering, exc. died in a few hours, 
Of ee Dicka Poftillion, Plethoric, Choleric, much given to drinking 
‘wasocea, RUM-Punch, and ftrong Liquors, fell into a Fever, which chiefly 
fioned by feiz'd his Head, fo thar he was inavery great rage. I treated him 
Seo after the cool Regimen, had him bled and bliftered, bue notwith- 
and had Standing this found him ftill worfe. Atlength, I learn’d his Nurfe 
Fits which gave him much Wine and Flefh, contrary to inftru€tions, I] ote 
fovew,__der’d the contrary, and by the continuance in this courfe, When 
and the Afpect of the Sun and Moon chang’d, on that very minute, 
recy of from great rage he came to himfelf, and recovered quite of his Di- 
ad sees ftemper. I have in feveral perfons obferved the fame, but thefe 
Afpects which I was fure to have any effects, were only the Fulls 
and Changes, or Oppofitions and Conjunctions of the Sun and 
Moon. I have feen their effects, principally on Perfons ufed to ex- 
ceflive drinking, and that chiefly of Brandy, which after fome time 
turned them maniacal, with very great Fits, for fome days before 
and fometimes after thefe Afpects. I have not feen fo much of the 
effects of the Sun and Moon’s Alpects in England and Europe, as Fa- 
Malla, 
