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ofBlack Blacks are as often taken for Nurfes as Whites, being much eafier 
Nurfes. to be had. They are not coveted by Planters, for fear of infecting 
their Children with fome of their ill Cuftoms, as Thieving, e+. 
I never faw any {uch Confequences, and am fure a Blacks Milk 
comes much nearer the Mothers than that of a Cow, and yer in 
Jamaica fome Children are bred up by the Hand very well. 
Some Women being here very debauch’d as to drinking, ec, when 
Of Chil. they are Nurfes, can {carce abftain from it, and thereby infeét Chil- 
drens Di- dren very often with Puftles, breakings out, ec. I us’d in fuch cafes 
an to perfuade changing the Nurfe, or bringing up the Child by 
Hand, tampering with Phyfick too much with Children, where 
the Difeafe is not plain, being not fafe, they not being able co 
inform the Phyfician of their Malady,but by frowardnels and crying. 
Of Cho- | Chocolate is given to young Children here, almoft the firft Meac 
colate gi- they take except the Mothers Milk, and is found to agree with them 
Children. -as well as Milk-Meats in England, 
Mr. William Kayes, aged about Forty years, complain’d to me he 
had been feveral years croubl’d with Ringworms on his Abdomen. | 
defir’d to fee them, he fhow’d me a {pot or two on his Belly, 
about the Circumference of a fix pence, in which was a fuperficial 
ulceration of, asit would feem, the Cuticula, with fome {cales about 
the edges. It was of a dark brown colour, and there feem’d to 
Of the iflueout a {mall Ichor. He had in this place a moft tntolerable un- 
pane eafie itching which was very troblefome. He had not infected his 
mpetigo Or. i : 
Lepra Gra- Wife with it, alchough moft Men are thought to communicate it 
coum. to their Wives. JT order’d him to be bled and purg’d, gave him in- 
wardly, after twice purging, a great many Dofes of Flor. Sulpb. in 
the morning and night, drinking after it Diet-Drink, for fome weeks. 
After this preparation an Ointment was made with Sulph. Viv. pow- 
dered and mixt with Ung. ex Oxylapath. and {cented with Oil of 
Rhodium, with which he was to anoint it, but by the ufe of che firft 
Medicines he was well, and continued fo. This is a very ordinary 
Difeafe here, and in moft parts of the World, continuing many 
years, and fixes its felf in feveral places of the Body. It feems to 
come near the Lepra Grecorum, and is the Impetigo mention’d by Pifo 
to be in Brazile. Itules always to becur’d by the abovefaid Medi- 
cines, though now and then, on the Afpects of the Moon it would 
return again, and be cur’don ule of the Medicines as before, I¢had 
ia oe to be cur'd by moft of the Phyficians of the Ifland without 
sHecels: 
Mr, Hem- 
