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A True and Exalt Hiftory 
|for itnot only broke, bur brought away all the Stones and Gra-| 
very plentiful fortune, and may carry with him from Evxgland, better 
remedies for his health, then they; who for along time had neither| 
means to provide, nor money to purchafe it; for though fome Sim- 
ples grow there, that are miore proper to the bodies of the Natives, 
than any we can bring from forreign parts, and no doubt would 
be fofor our bodies too, if we knew the true ufe of them 5 yet 
wanting that knowledge, we. are fain to make ufe. of our, 
own. ae 
But when able and skilful. Phyfitians fhall’ come, whofe know- 
ledge can make the right experiment and ufe of the vertues of thofe. 
Simples that grow there, they will no doubt find them more effica- 
cious, and prevalent to their healths, than thofe they. bring from 
forraign. parts. For certainly every Climate produces Simples more 
proper to cure the difeafes that are bred there,than thofe that are tranf- 
ported from any other part of the world-fuch cure the great Phyfitian 
.to mankind takes for our convenience. | 
Somewhat Ihave faid of the difeafes that reign in general in that 
Ifland, but have fallen onno particular, though I have felt the power 
a 1 nmnre own bod y,-asmuch as any man that hath 
paft through it to death, though it pleafed the merciful God to raife 
me upagain: for[ have it to {hew under the hand of Colenel Thazas 
Modiford, in whofe houtel lay fick, thar he faw me dead without any | 
appearance of life, three feveral times, not as in founding, but dying 
fits;and yet recovered at laity 2 oo Be 
To tell the_tedious particulars of-my—ficknefs, and the fevéral 
drenches our ignorant uackialvers there gave me, will prove but 
a troublefome relation, and thereforeI am willing to decline it : On- 
ly thismuch, that it began with a Fever, and as it is the culttomeof 
that difeafe there to caufe bindings, coftivenefs, and confequently. 
gripings and tortions in the bowels, fo it far'd with me; that fora 
fortnight together had not the leaft evacuation by Seige, which put 
me tofuch torment, asin all that time I have not flept; and want of: 
that, wore me out to fuch a weaknefle, as I was notthen in a con« 
dition to take any remedy atall. This exceflive heat within begat 
a new torinent within me, the Stones which ftopt my pallage fo. 
as in fourteen dayes together. no drop of water came from me ; But} . 
contrary to my expectation ; God Almighty fent me a Remedy | 
for that, and fuch a one asall the whole world cannot afford the like: 
for in ten houres after I took it, I found my felf not only eas’d, | 
ybut perfectly cur’d of that torment, at leat for the prefent, 
vel that {topt my paflage, fo that my water came as freely Fromme} 
asever, and carryed before it fuch quantities of broken ftones and gta~} 
yel,asin my wholc life Thave not {centhelike. About three weekes 
oramonth after this, Ibecameinthe fame diftreG,and felt the like tors. 
ment, whereupon I took the fame medicines which gaveme the fame} 
ielp. Now if it did thus to abody fo worn out asmine, where Na-| 
<uréwas {6 decayed as it could operate little to the cure ; what will | 
this Medicine do, when. it meets with {ach Organsas can contribute 
mamly toafiift it ? But I givethe Reader buta footy Relatiou of my | 
Maladics ¢ 
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