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Spanish army in the time of Philip the Fourth i 

 and Don Fermin Caravajal, Duke of St. Carlos, 

 a native of Conception, who resides at present aC 

 the court of Madrid. Don Juan Covarrubias, 

 who was a native of St. Jago, in the beginning 

 of the present century entered into the service of 

 the king of France, and was rewarded with the 

 title of Marquis of Covarrubias, the order of 

 the Holy Ghost, and the rank of Marshal in the 

 French army. 



The salubrity of the air, and the constant 

 exercise on horseback to which they accustom 

 themselves from childhood, render them strong 

 and active, and preserve them from many diseases. 

 The small pox is not so common as in Europe, but 

 it makes terrible ravages when it appears. This 

 disease was, in the year 1766, for the first time 

 introduced into the province of Maule, where it 

 became very fatal. A countryman who had re- 

 covered from it, conceived the idea of attempting 

 to cure a number of unhappy wretched, who had 

 been abandoned, by cow's milk) which he gave 

 them to drink, or administered to them in clysters. 

 With this simple remedy he cured all those whom 

 lie attended ; while the physicians with their com- 

 plicated prescriptions saved but a very few. I 

 haye mentioned this anecdote, as it serves strongly 

 to confirm the successful experiments of M. Las- 

 sone, physician to the queen of France, in the 

 cure of the small po3Siftvith cow's milk, published 



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