THE DISEASES OF THE CREVr. 3S9 



CHAP. X. 



VOYAGE FROM THE ^rARIA^JA ISLANDS TO THE PHILIPPINES, 

 AND STAY AT LU9ON. 



BILIOUS DISORDERS AND VACCINATION. 



A SHORT time after we left Guahon, colics began 

 to prevail, as they had done in the neighbourhood 

 of the Cape Verd islands. In some the colic 

 changed to diarrhoea, and was then soon over: others 

 were attacked with head-aches, sickness at the sto- 

 mach, and gripes, and ft*equent retchings. In this 

 case emetics are of no avail; but the common salts 

 are the best remedy. 



Near Lugon, in the Ciiinese Sea, catarrhal fevers 

 and rheumatism manifested themselves on account of 

 the great dews which often fell even before sunset. 

 On arriving in the bay of Manilla, our first busi- 

 ness was to enquire respecting the small-pox in this 

 island, for the five Aleutians on board our ship had 

 not had that disease, as indeed it has not yet 

 penetrated to the Russian American possessions. 

 One of the Kamtschadales likewise begged to be in- 

 oculated, as he had never had the small-pox, though 

 he had twice imdergone the operation. A physi- 

 cian of Cavite, who inoculated with the cow-pox once 

 a week in the neighbourliood, sent us two Tagalese 

 children which had the vaccine. As the progress 



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