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A Child of a bout a year and an half old, was taken ill of an 
Epidemic Tertian Fever, with the Symptotns of which it had a veryOfa Teri- 
great {well’d upper Jaw. The Mother told me, thac the Child@?.274 
breeding Teeth very hardly, the Jaw had been formerly cuit, whereJaws in 2 
the {welling now was. I concluded the cutting had fowl'd, or hureChild. 
the upper part of the Tooth, and that part of the Morbific Matter 
was fent to that place as weak, during the Paroxyfm of the Fever. 
I gave ic the Cortex, and it was in fome few days cured of both Fe- 
ver and {well’d Jaws, 
Face-Cloaths, or Linnen to be pin’d over the Face of New-boinOf the 
Children, are never ufed in Jamaica, it being hot, and thought therem2?28° 
very unhealthy. Cradles are not us’d very much, but Aamacas for Children 
Children to be laid in, wherein they are tofs'd or {wung as if they in Famaica. 
were rock’d in a Cradle. They make an Engine of Wood as long 
as the Child, alittle broader, and a Foot and an half high, arch’d at 
top. The fides and top are covered with Gauze to hinder the Gnats 
or Mofquitos molefting the Child lying under it. 
A great many White Women, all Indians and Negros, keep not 
their Beds over a Week, after having brought forth, when they re- dns 
turn to their ordinary Bufinefs, Sometimes through a contrary Cu-Women in 
ftom this may be prejudicial, as I kaew'a-Mother-of many Children, Childbed. 
who getting up fo much earlier than fhe uled to do, fell into great 
pains in her Sides, after having fome diminution of her Lochia. In 
this cafe I ordered bleeding, andthe ule of Sage-Tea, by which fhe 
recovered in fome time. 
A Woman being got with Child, endeavoured to hide it, anid 
took violent Medicines defigning Abortion, They had not the de-Of bias 
fired effect, for although fhe took Mercury Sublimate in Broath,});... 
et fhe went out her Time, and after violent Vomitings, and greattaken in- 
Spitting for fome time, fhe was privately delivered, and the Child “ardly. 
buried in a Field. It was difcovered by Birds, which feed on cor- 
rupting Flefh, are a fort of Vulture, and call’d Carrion Crows. 
The Child thus found, being brought to Towa, a fearch was 
made, and the {uppofed Mother carried to Prifon. She there fell 
into a Delirium, with other feverilh Symptoms ver high. She 
was blifter’d, and took Sp. C G and other things, y which fhe 
recovered, and was feemingly well, but I heard fhe died a Weck 
after. 
Blacks 
