Dr. Per aval on the EjfeSi! ofFam'me, &c. 49^ 



*< his pains, he faid, gradually decreared, after the 

 *'• Oxth day, (for they had water in the (hip, which 

 " kept them alive fo long,) and then he was in 

 " a ftate rather of langour, than defire ; nor did 

 " he much wifli for food, except when he faw 

 *' others eating ; and that for a while revived his 

 «' appetite, though with diminiOied importunity* 

 " The latter part of the time, when his health was 

 " almofl: defiroycd, a ihoufand ftrange images rofe 

 " upon his mind J and every one of his fenfes be- 

 *' 2an to bring him wrong information. The mod 

 " fragrant perfumes appeared to him to have a fetid 

 " fmell ; and every thing he looked at took a 

 " greenifh hue, and fometimes a yellow. When 

 ** he was prefented with food by the (hip's com- 

 5* pany, that took him and his men up, four of 

 " whom died (hortly after, he could not help 

 " looking upon it with loathing inftead of defire ; 

 " and it was not, till after four days, that his fto- 

 *' mach was brought to its natural tone ; when 

 *' the violence of his appetite returned, with a fort 

 " of canine eagernefs."* 



To thofe who, by their occupations, are ex- 

 pofed to fuch dreadful calamities, it is of ferious 

 importance to be inftrufted in the means of 

 alleviating them. The American Indians are faid 

 to ufe a compofition of the juice of tobacco, and 

 the (hells of fnails, cockles, and oyfters calcined, 



• See Goldfmith's Hiftory of th-e Earth, vol. II. ?• 126. 



whenever 



