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well as all over his Body; he now made and had done for fome 
time paft white purulent {melling and thick water. I concluded ic 
it to be an Abfcefs of the Reins, and told him I was apprehentfive 
it was incurable. However I had him bled twice or thrice, purg’d 
feveral times a week, with Pil. Coch. Min, he took on the interme- 
diate days, Ol. Tercb. Balf. Sulph and a Decoétion of Barley. By 
which means contrary to expectation he was quite cured, 
Mrs. Purifie, aged Thirty five years, complain’d of great pains 
in her Kidnies, hada great heat there, and had gone through feveral OF the 
Courfes without fuccefs. 1 put her into the fame method as above, mes sng 
but the Oil was too hot for her. I gave her fome Vitriolum Martis, spleen. 
making artificial Mineral waters, as well for that asa fwell’d Spleen. 
After fhe had gone through this Courfe, fhe recovered very well, 
which fhe attributed more to the outward application of Orange 
Leaves then any thing elfe. She had for her Spleen a Galbanum Plai- 
{ter, and one Ex Gcuta cum Gum, Ammoniaco, I have known this laft 
Plaifter do great matters, with Jalap inwardly given at the fame 
time. They drain a great quantity of blackifh Serum, which fills 
and {wells the capacity of the Abdomen, as well as Liver and Spleen 
to that rate, as that they meet almoft about the Navel. One cold 
me fhe found on the ule of this Plaifter over the aforelaid Vifcera 
as if fome body had fqueez’d them with their hand, and the Belly 
at the fame time fell feveral Inches in a week by meafure. 
One Devons Wife brought me to fee her Husband, who had been Of afiecpy 
very melancholly for feveral months, was morole, would orca! 
fpeak, but was always drowfie and fleepy. 1 order'd him to be 
bled, gave him a Purge, fome Sp CC and had his Neck bliftered 
by which in a few days he was quite well. ay 
She fell ill of an Epidemic intermitting Fever, which in one ofOf an in- 
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the Fits run fo high, as that after long and Phrenetic difcourfe, not ee 
withitanding bliftering ,¢7c. fhe, after falling into cold Sweats, died. Which was 
' mortal. 
d heard very much of a dry Dropfie, a Diftemper that was 
ti : Be tal to many of this Iland, both Whites and 
Blacks, and was pretended to be a very ftrange Difeafe (as it would Of an 
Ae Heétic, 
have been, fad it anfwerd its Name) and proper to this Climate. 015°, 
brought to me trom Colonel Nedham’s Plantati- Famaica a 
. fie bad See by Labourer at the Stokeholes. He had in Bay as 
this Employment been extremely heated, and {weated, and by 
taking Colds thereon, he had contracted a great Cough, which 
had continued for {ome time. He was wafted in his Body, was hot 
and Feverifh, and had his Legs edematous, puff'd up, and 2 an 
