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reckoned the moft {kilful Botaniil: of his Profef- 

 lion, in our Ifland : He told me, that it was ve- 

 ry medicinal, and that he gave it, with good fuc- 

 cefs, to any of his Patients whofe cafe he thought 

 required it, as he did alfo feveral other Nevis 

 Plants, that were entirely negledled by his Bre- 

 thren. 



1 1 . We have there likewife a Tree called Did- 

 dle Doo^ which is of the fize and make of a Cod- 

 iin Apple-tree, but with narrow thin Leaves : It 

 bears a moft lovely Flower, of the fineft yellow^ 

 and livelieft Scarlet Colours, fomewhat refemb- 

 ling Nafturtian Flowers. It is efteemed as a So- 

 vereign Remedy in the Green Sicknefs, a very 

 rare Diftemper, in fo warm a Chmate, where the 

 Blood and other Juices of the Body, do ufually 

 keep on in pretty regular courfes, efpecially fmce 

 the warm Climate is fo ftrondv alTifted in the 

 Affair, by the frequent Dancing of thofe young 

 Ladies, as well as their riding fingly on Horfe- 

 back ', for the whole force of that fkipping and 

 jogging Motion, (fays BagUvi) terminates down- 

 wards, where it raifes a Fermentation, by which 

 the ftagnating Matter recovers its loft Circulation. 

 At Antigua, I faw a whole Hedge of it. 



12. After a fevere Fever there, I was once 

 troubled with an ugly tickhng Cough, and the 

 Dodor ordered me to eat plentifully, of what I 



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