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proceeds to incurable difeafe, and ultimately 

 to the deftrudion of the toe. 



The chigoe prevails mod in fandy places. 

 In this ifland they are very numerous. A ne- 

 gro not unfrequently extrads five or fix from 

 his feet, at one fitting ; and fo expert are they 

 at finding them, that, in examining the foot 

 of an European, a fiave will, frequently, dis- 

 cover two or three chigoes, before the mafter 

 had felt the leaft fenfe of itching or uneafinefs 

 from them. 



The mode of extrading them is as fol- 

 lows : with a pointed pen-knife, not very 

 fharp, or the blunt end of a large needle, a 

 flight opening is broken in the {kin, at the 

 fmall black point over the cyft. From this 

 opening the fkin is forced away, by being torn, 

 or broken down, and prefTed outwards, on all 

 fides, care being taken not to pundure, or 

 otherwife rupture the cyft. The fkin, being 

 thus feparated, the nidus or fmall bag becomes 

 expofed in form of a little round body — and 

 is, afterwards, extraded by prefling down the 

 point of the inftrument, at one fide, and turn- 



