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On the voyage to the Sandwich islands two 

 Aleutians and some sailors suffered from the heat. 

 But the whole sickness consisted only of head-ache 

 and a general lassitude, and was soon removed by 

 Cremor tartari. 



From the Sandwich islands to Radack we had 

 some very hot days, from which many of our 

 people, by frequent perspiration and bathing in the 

 very salt sea-w-ater, were affected with a small, red, 

 and very itching eruption in different parts of the , 

 body. 



Near the coral islands we had frequent rains 

 and gusts of wind, on which a sailor was attacked 

 with rheumatism in both legs, and another with 

 sciatica. This sciatica was at first attended only 

 with pains in the knee-joint, but it afterwards 

 changed into a general rheumatism. The sinew 

 of the M. Psoas magni, and of the Iliaci i7iter7ii, 

 which was at first contracted and hard, gradually 

 yielded to the application of salves : but small hard 

 swellings appeared on the sole of the foot, and the 

 lower side of the fore-arm, which were only pain- 

 ful at their origin. The patient had got this rheu- 

 matism by bathing on the bowsprit, where he let 

 the water on his body be dried off by the wind. 



Soon after, • two other sailors were seized with 

 rheumatism in the reins, which was very painful, 

 because every bend of the body caused pain. 

 They had contracted this disorder in the same 

 manner as the preceding. 



