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iron mines, and have a ftrong chalybeat 

 tafte ; and they aflured me that this remedy 

 was infallible. Other people therefore who 

 did not live very far from fuch fprings, 

 went to them for a few days, when they 

 liad the fever, in order to drink the water, 

 which commonly cured them. 



I HAVE already fhown above, that fage 

 mixed with lemon juice, has been found 

 very falutary againfl the ague. 



It was however univerfally remarkable, 

 that that which cures one perfon of it, has 

 no effed upon another. 



The pleurify is likewife a difeafe which 

 the people of this country are much fubje<5t 

 to. The Swedes in this province call it 

 jlitches and burnings and they always mean 

 the pleurify whenever they mention thofe 

 words. Many of the old Swedes told me 

 that they had heard very little of it when 

 they were young, and that their parents 

 had known ftill lefs of it in their childhood ; 

 but that it was fo common now, that many 

 people died every year of it : yet it has 

 been obferved, that in fome years this di- 

 feafe has been very moderate, and taken 

 few people away with it, whilft in other 

 years it makes great havock : it likewife is 

 more violent in fome places than in others. 

 In the autumn of the year 1728, it fwept 



away 



