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which together commonly constitute their principal meal. The 

 middle sort, however, make use also of feijao or black beans, 

 and occasionally fowl, &c. with agoar dentc as a corrective. 

 Their breakfast generally consists oi far 171 ha and coffee. At any 

 rate, it must be partly owing to the nature of the food made use 

 of, or to the manner of dressing it, as well as to the nature of the 

 climate, that scarcely an individual is to be met with, who is not 

 aflfected with some of the prominent symptoms ostensive of dys- 

 pepsia, and that by far the greater number of the inhabitants are 

 variously and grievously affected. Persons who live in solitude 

 will find the ravaging effects of disease, particularly within or 

 near the torrid zone — 



• sub curru nimhim propinqui 



Solis, in terra domibus negata." 



For this reason, and in order to exclude misery from such, his 

 favourite state, the inimitai)le St. Pierre, in one of the most ex- 

 quisite paintings that the love of nature and of virtue ever in- 

 spired, has not forgotten to particularize the use of medicine. 



Here the inhabitants have, or pretend to have, a high opinion 

 of English physicians, which, with the remoteness of Rio Janeiro 

 and Saji Paulo, the nearest places where medical men of any 

 description can be found, caused such as were diseased to flock 

 from all the contiguous parts to the ship, for cure or relief; so 

 that I may be allowed to say concerning the diseases of these 

 parts, — " haud inexpertus loq?ior." 



I have often admired that excellent passage in Shakspeare's 

 works, so remarkable for its physical justness, viz. 



" Life, 



• a breatli thou art. 



Servile to all the nkjiey hifuenccs. 



That do this habitation where thou keep'st 



Hourly afflict." 

 " Thou art riot certain ; 



For thy complexion shifts to strange effects. 



After the mouu." 



From this last paragraph, in particular, I am led to remark 

 that diseases have of late been verv generally referred to a su- 

 perficial or first-sight doctrine of induction alone; and a local 

 modification, without any due regard to what produces it, has 

 been as generally considered the sole exciting cause. Thus Dr. 

 Parr of Exeter, iu his remarks on the inlluence of the heavenly 

 bodies, states, that diseases may be referred to causes less remote. 



and washed, in order to extract a poisonous juice from it, and then put into 

 a kind of kiln and dried. — In the licjuor, which runs through in the press, a 

 sediment forms, which, on being w;ibhcd and levigated, constitutes the well 

 known tupiucu. 



For 



