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very plentiful fortune, and may carry with him from England^ better 

 remedies for his health, then they, who for a long time had neither 

 means to provide, nor money to purchafe it , for though fome Sim- 

 ples grow there, that are more proper to the bodies of the Natives, 

 than any we can bring from forreign parts ^ and no doubt woufd 

 be fo for our bodies too, if we knew the true ufe of them , yet 

 wanting that knowledge, we are fain to make ufe of our 

 , own. 



But when able and skilful Phyfitians fhall come, whole know- 

 ledge can make the right experiment and ufe ofthevertues of thole 

 Sirtiples 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 Simple., more 

 proper to cure the difeafes that are bred there,than thofe that tr.-inr- 

 ported from any other part of the world. -fuch cure the great Phyiitian 

 to mankind takes for our convenience. 



Somewhat I have (aid of the difeales that reign in general in that 

 Ifland, but have fallen on no particular, though I have felt the power 

 and Tyranny of it upon mincown body, as much as any man that hath 

 paft through it to death, though it pleafed the merciful God to raife 

 me up again : for I have it to ihew under the hand of QoXon^^T^hsmas 

 Afodiford^'mwhorQ houlel lay fick, thar he faw ms dead without any 

 appearance of life, three feveral times, not as in founding, but dying 

 j fits, and yet recovered at laft. 



To tell the tedious particulars of my fickrjels, and the feveral 

 drenches our ignorant Quackfalvers there gave me, will prove but 

 a troublefbme relation, and therefore I am willing to decline it: On- 

 ly this much, that it began with a Fever, and as it is thecuftomeof 

 that difeale there to caufe bindings , coffcivenels, and conlequently 

 gripings and tortious in the bowels, fo it far'd with me, that for a. 

 fortnight together had not the lead: evacuation by Seige, which put 

 me to fuch torment, as in all that time I have not Ocpt, and want of 

 that, wore me out to fuch a weakneife , as I was not then in a con- 

 dition to take any remedy at all. This cxceffive heat within begat 

 a new torment uithin m.e, the Stone 5 which ftopt my pailage fo 

 as in fourteen day es together nodropof water came from me 5 But 

 contrary to my expectation , God Almighty (ent me a Pvemedy 

 for that, and fuch a one asall the whole world cannot afford the like : 

 I for in ten hourcs after I took it, I found my felf not only easVl, 

 ibut perfedly cur'd of that torment, at leaft for the prefcnt, 

 ffor it not only brokC;, bur brought away ail the Stones and Cra- 

 I vel that ftopt my pallagc, fo that my Vv'ater came as freely from me 

 [as ever, and carryed before' it fuch quantities ot broken ftones andgra- 

 I vel^as in my whole life I have not leen the like. About three v/cekcs 

 or a month after this, I became in the fame diftrels.and felt the like tor- 

 ment, whereupon I took the fame medicine^ which gave mc the fame 

 help. Now if it did thus to a body fo worn out as mine, where Na- 

 turewas fo decayed as it could operate little to the cure 5 what will 

 this ivledjcine do, when it meets v/ith fuch Organs as can contribute 

 mainiy-toaflift it ? But I givethePveader but a footy Rclatiou of my 



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