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per, or jawes, is begun or continued with gon- 

 orrhoea, jet is attended with nocturnal pains in 

 the limbs, and commonly makes such a progress 

 as to vent part of the matter by bothes, and seve- 

 ral ulcers in the body, and other parts, oftentimes 

 death ensuing. I have known mercurial ungu- 

 ents and remedies work a cure, following the 

 same methods as in the pox, several white people, 

 but chiefly the Criolos, losing their palates and 

 noses by this devouring vulture. 



It is epidemical, visiting these parts of America 

 which is often occa^'ioned through the immoderate 

 drinking of rum, by those that commonly drink 

 water at other times. Cold night's lodging, and 

 bad open houses, and more chiefly, by often wet- 

 ting the feet and eating such quantities of pork as 

 they do, which is a gross food, and a great propa- 

 gator of such juices as it often meets withal inhu- 

 man bodies, once tainted with this malady, which 

 may differently (in some respects) act its tragedy, 

 the change being occasioned by the difference of cli- 

 mates and bodies as in Europe. We being well 

 enough assured that the pox had its flrst rise 

 (known to us) in this new world, it being caught 

 of the Indian women by the Spanish soldiers that 

 followed Columbus in one of his expeditions to 

 America, who after their arrival in old Spain, 

 were hastened to the relief of iN'aples, at that time 

 besieged by the French. j^Provisions growing 

 scarce, the useless people were turned out of the 

 city, to lesson the mouths. Amongst these the 



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