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ficial eafie touches, even when the Guts and Stomach are in fo 
out of the Abdomen, will caufe a fenfible and vigorous EL 
As to the fo much celebrated Salutary effets {aid ta enfue Sea-SicknefS in The Effeél: 
all difeafed Perfons, and its no lef§ famed ones in preventing Sicknefs in thofe ae 
that are Sound, I confefs my {elf to diffent from thofe Opinions; foralthoughin 
feveral Diftempers very frequent now adays from Intemperance, cc. cleanfing 
the Stomach by Vomit be a very good remedy, yet I think ir neither univer{al 
in every Diftemper, nor this by Sea-ficknefS to be able to do more than a 
good ordinary Vomit, having likewife this very great Inconvenience, that 
It is not in the power of the Phyfician to {top this, or moderate the working 
of it, as he maya Vomit, no more than he can command the Waves, or ftop 
the raging of the Sea; whence many People by the lafting of this perpetual 
omiting, in long Voyages, have been brought to even Death irfelf, and 
others extremely weakened thereby. For all thofe Arguments from the fil- 
thinefs of the Subftances vomited up are very frivolous; for I queftion not 
but many perfectly found People vomit them up, who would. not haye any 
Sicknefs, if they had not fo vomited them, and to the Occonomy of whofe 
Bodies they were abfolutely neceflary ; the Serous Matter or Spittle to be a 
Menftruum to their Victuals, the Phiegm to defend the Tunicles of the Sto- 
mach and Guts, and the Gall as well as {ubacid Juices from the Glands to help 
the Digeftion of our Victuals and forward the Secretion of the ufeful Juices 
and Excretion of the Excrements, which fo neceflary Subftances, either fimple 
in their own Colours, or mixt together, and fo making a new Colour, are 
ufually fo much and undefervedly blamed. 
For Remedics for this Sicknefs (which not one in near fifty efcapes*)I know And pro- 
none perfectly fo; but keeping in a quict pofture, in a place where isthe leaft bable Reme- 
motion without any noifome {mell or fight, is the beft.. J ufually ac firft de- 2 
fired them to drink quantities of warm Water, »or Small-Beer to make all come _ Ra0wolfs 
up eafily, on which they found Relief, and in fome days they grew better. “4? ' 
Or with the Ships motion this ScknefS abates, and then when there is only 
SqueamifhnefS, eating of Victuals relieves rather than hurts. \ Marmalade of 
ae Candy’d Citron-Peel, burnt Wine with Spices, and generally all 
vordial hot Waters, gave me no eafe but fometimes made meficker : havin 
been, notwithftanding tryal of all thefe things, troubled with this Sicknets 
for a Month together in going to:the W2/-Jndies, and fix Weeks in comin 
Home, upon every the leaft puff of Wind extraordinary. At the worlt a Foot 
on Land always fet me free from all thefe Symptoms and Maladies immedi- 
ately, altho my Head would turn round and feem’d to have an odd motion 
within it for fome time after. 
"Tis very ordinary for Sca-Sick People to be very much bound in their 
Bellies, becaufe of the Periftaltick motion’s being inverted, the Gall or na- 
rural Glifter voided by the Mouth, and that they have no Appetite for Solids, 
neither digeft fo much Food as ufually. To remedy which I ufed to give 
gr v. extr. Rud. a little Manna, or fome eafie Medicine to Stimulate Nature, 
and to hinder the baking of the Excrements in the Cells of the Colon, and by 
that means hinder aColick. But one need not be over-folicitous about this mat- 
ter ; becaufeif they Eat not as they ufé to do at Land, they cannot expe& 
the fame quantity of Excrements. This confideration may be of fome ule 
likewife in the practice of Phyfick, where Phyficians for the fame reafon in 
difeafed Bodies ought not to expect Excrements as in Health. 
The 19. of September we Weighed Anchor, the Wind being at North-Eaft in 
the Morning, it chang’d at eleven at Night, when we Tackt, and was variable 
from South-Eaft to South-Weft, and for the moft part a frefh Gale. On We arrive 
Wednefday the 21. the Wind being at South and South by Weft, chick Weather, before Pli. 
much Rain, and like to blow hard, we went into Plymouth Sound, where we mouth. 
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