EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



toes become putrid, and drop away joint after joint. The C 

 worll: of which is, that though the difeafe is hopelefs, the 

 unhappy fufFerer may linger fometimes for many years. 

 The lepers are naturally lafcivious, and the difeafe being 

 infectious, they are of neceffity feparated from all fociety, 

 and condemned to a perpetual exile in fome remote cor- 

 ner of the plantations. 



The clabba-yazvs, or tubboes^ is alfo a very troublefome 

 and tedious diforder ; it occafions painful fores about the 

 feet, moftly in the foles, between the fkin and the flefh. 

 The ufual remedy in this cafe is, to burn out the morbid 

 part with a red-hot iron, or cut it out with a lancet ; and 

 then the warm juice of roafted limes is introduced into the 

 wound, though with great pain yet with great fuccefs. 



The African negroes are alfo fubje6l to many fpecies 

 of worms y both extraneous and internal, owing to the 

 wading much in llagnated waters, and to the crudity of 

 their diet. Of the former fpecies is the Guinea or tape- 

 worm, which breeds between the fkin and the flefh, and 

 is fometimes two yards in length, of a fliining lilvery co- 

 lour, and not thicker than the fecond firing of a bafs- 

 viol. It occafions dangerous and painful fwellings where- 

 ever it inferts itfelf, which is moflly about the legs. The 

 method of cure, is to feize the head of the worm when 

 it appears above the ikin, and extra(5l it by winding it 

 gently round a flick or card ; this operation cannot be 

 performed with too much caution, for if it breaks, the 



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