Port St. Frederic. 3j 



he had once had a very violent fit of the 

 latter, and that Dr. Sarrafm had cured 

 hinn in the following manner, which has 

 been found to fucceed bt-fl here. He gave 

 him fudorifics, which were to operate be- 

 tween eight and ten hours ; he was then 

 bled, and the fudorifics repeated j he was 

 bled again, and that efFedually cured him. 



Dr. Sarrafm was the royal phylician at 

 ^.ebeCi and a correfpondent of the royal 

 academy of fciences at Paris. He was pof- 

 fefTed of great knowledge in the practice 

 of phyfic, anatomy, and other fciences, and 

 ^'ery agreeable in his behaviour. He died 

 at ^lebec, of a malignant fever^ which had 

 been brought to that place by a fhip, and 

 with which he was infedled at an hofpital, 

 where he vifited the fick. He left a fon, who 

 likewife ftudied phyfic, and went io France 

 to make himfelf more perfed; in the prac- 

 tical part of it, but he died there. 



The intermitting fevers fometimes come 

 amongfl; the people here, and the venereal 

 difeafe is common here. The Indians are 

 likewife infevlted with it ; and many of 

 them have had it, and fome fiill have itj 

 but they likewife are perfecftly poflelTcd of 

 the art of curing it. There are examples 

 of Frenchmen and Indians^ inferred all over 

 the body with this difeafe, who havebeen ra- 



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