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The Agues or intermittent Fevers, do generally admit of 

 the same method of Cure as with us in h^eland, so that it 

 would be needless to repeat it here, which almost every old 

 Woman pretends to have an infalible Cure for. 



The Cachexy, or ill habit of Body, is a very common Dis- 

 temper in these Parts ; 'tis very stubborn in its ^N^ature, and 

 tedious and difficult to be cured. In this disorder, the Face 

 is very pale and discolor'd, and the Body big and swoln ; this 

 Distemper is principally owing to their eating gTcat quantities 

 of Fruit that this Country produces, and to a sedentary way 

 of living, and their eating Clay and Dirt, which the Children, 

 both Whites and Blacks, and some of the old People are very 

 subject to; by wdiich means the whole Humours of the Body 

 are corrupted and vitiated to that degree (through surfeits 

 and ill digestion) that they will hardly admit of a Cure. 

 Steel'd Wines, and other Preparations of filings and rust of 

 Iron, strong Purgers, and Exercises, are the only Methods to 

 perfect the Cure of this Distemper. 



The C holer a-Morhus, is a vehement Perturbation of the 

 whole Body and Bowels, from a deprav'd Motion of the 

 Ventricle and Guts, whereby bilious, sharp, or corrupt Hu- 

 mours, are plentifully and violently discharged upwards and 

 downwards. This disorder is happily carried off by giving 

 proper Doses of the Ipecauucana, that grows plentifully in 

 Carolina, which I have already made mention of. 



The Cramp or Convulsions, is a Motion whereby the Mus- 

 cles or Membranes are contracted and remitted, without the 

 Will. This Disorder is common in these Parts, and espe- 

 cially amongst the Negroes or Blacks, whereof many die, 

 either for want, or before proper Medicines can be admin- 

 ister'd ; it admits of the same method of Cure as with us in 

 Europe. 



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