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This fpecies of fever, occafioned by the fiag- 

 nant waters under a burning Iky, was treated 

 with demulcent drinks and antifpafmodics. Ether, 

 given very frequently, and in fmall dofes, was 

 of great advantage in fupporting the powers of 

 life, by diminishing the violence of the fymptoms. 



M. Hoffman, furgeon of the military hofpital, 

 came to fee the patient feveral times in the 

 courfe of the day. Our own furgeon alfo at- 

 tended him. 



M. Bourguelles, treafurer of the Dutch Eaft- 

 India Company, had pcrfuaded the commander 

 of our expedition that the united knowledge of 

 the phyficians of Europe was not, in fimilar dif- 

 orderg, equal to the fcience of a Malay doctor. 

 One of the mod fkilful had been called in : it 

 was not by internal remedies that he wifhed to 

 effect a cure, for he gave the patient nothing to 

 take ; but after rubbing the fkin a little in dif- 

 ferent parts of the body, and chafing the lower 

 extremities, he pronounced, with a myfterious air, 

 fome words which he feemed to addrefs to the 

 Supreme Being ; he then, as he told us, laid the 

 evil fpirits, whom thefc iflanders confidcr as the 

 caufe of diforders. M. Bourguelles was tranf- 

 ported with joy to fee that this phyfieiaii did his 

 beft in order to obtain fome fuccefs. We fuffer- 

 ed him to proceed as long as we faw that no bad 

 confequences could refult ; but it was neceflary 



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