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few Leagues Weft lics Three or Four {inal! 
farts, which are Til’d by Eight or Nine 
them commanding the reft. The Commander {ome Years before carr ing over 
his Wife and Daughters, he was kill’d, and they abus’d by the Murderers, 
They make here {ome red earthen Ware which is very thin and brittle, 
cooling Water, or whatever is put in them; the Red colour coming. likely 
from the Iron lying in the Clay. I faw feveral pieces of Ore here which 
ieem’d tobe very rich in that Metal. 
People here having a great Opinion of the Skill of Englifh Phyficians, they 
pray’d the Conful might come afhore and {ee thofe who were Sick, among 
others they defir'd my directions in the following Cates, 
A Clergy-Man of about Thirty Five or Forty Years of Age, had fome 
while before been fhot at bya miftake inthe Night, by fome who took him 
for one they ow’d fome Prejudice to; the Gun was loaded with fmall Shot, 
which lighted about his Temples, he told me from that time he began to lofe 
the fight of one Eye, till it was a while after entirely gone, and a Cataract 
(which I faw) grown init; the other Eye, (which is ufual, when one is hurt) Ob/ervati- 
decaying fo much that he could {carce {ee any thing with it. [told him, I ons of tbe 
thought this might have been remedied if at firtt they had taken out the Difeafes of 
{mall Shot, which in all likelyhood had weakned the Eye, made a. {mall Madera- 
breach or (lying near it) Compreffion of the Optick Nerve, by thar 
means hindering the paffage of the Images of Objects froth the Eye into 
the Brain; but that now there feem’d to be no Remiedies left, but to let 
fome {mall quantity of Blood, Purge with Pil. Coch. and wife Milleped:s iva 
great quantitics for a good time, with a White Vitriol Water, outwardly 
dropt on the Eye, to eat away the Films as much as might be. | 
Many here had been very feverely Clap’d, feveral of which ( by means of 
an ill-manag’d or protracted Cure) had been troubled with Carunéles and 
Carnofitics, and now had great pain in making Watct, and a Stillicidinm 
Urine, {o that they were forc’d to have dry Napkins applied to keep them 
from being wetted and Excoriation. Thefe laft Symptoms were common té 
thofe likewife who had their Carnofities eaten out of the Urethra, and curd ; 
but violent pains in making Water remaining, (forwhich mott part of the: fa- 
mous Phyficians of Europe had been confultedwithout fuccels,) I adviled 
them to foment outwardly, to ufe inwardly large quantities of Decoctions 
of Mallows, Marth-mallows, and other fuch Emollient and Anodyne things, 
to Emulfions and other temperers of heated fharp Urine, and to Gam Ara: 
bick powdered and taken in very large quantities. 
I was defir'd by the Abbefs of the Nunnery of the Order of Santa Clara to 
come to that Monaftery, and give my Opinion concerning fome undet het ¢are, 
who were Sick. I was brought firft into a Room where one jay abe, and the 
others retiring fhe fhew’d me a fimall Tumout upon the Os Putis, it hada {mall 
blackifh {pot on the Head, and was very hard, the found very little pain in 
it at mofl times, but at others when the ufed to be purged by her Catamenid, 
fhe had moft intolerable trouble there, and a great Menfium Fluxus out of 
that Speck, with very huge pain. There was no Livid Veins, tior any fign of 
a confirm’d Cancer, but concluding itto be very much inclining that way, 
I defired them in the firft place to abflain very religioufly from all outward 
Applications, efpecially hot {imelling Plaifters, which they told me had done 
her very much prejudice, I advifed her next to a Steel Courfe, and fome 
opening Medicines, as decoc?. Amar. Milleped. caiic Purges, cc. as the way to 
open Obftru@ions, fweeten the Blood, and fend it the right way, but what 
fuccefs they had J know not. 
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iflands or Rocks, called the De- 
Men fene from Madera, One of 
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