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ed at the edge of a wood. I knew nothing 
of the praftice of phyfic, but regimen and re- 
pofe ; my people knew ftill lefs ; and, if my 
malady increafed, I was likely in their hands 
to run very great rifques. I became fo weak, 
that I was obliged to remain abed in my wag- 
gon, which the heat of the fun rendered like a 
burning furnace. I was tormented with ex- 
cruciating pains in my bowels ; a violent dyfen- 
tery followed ; and I heard my people, in their 
turn, complain one after the other of the fame 
diftemper. Imagining then that this kind of 
epidemia was occafioned by the great quantity 
of fait fifh which we had eaten, I ordered all 
that remained of it to be burnt. In the mean 
time I was wafted by a continual fever ; but I 
did not entirely lofe my ftrength : and, after a 
' copious perfpiration for twelve days, reft, and 
a proper regimen, re-eftablilhed me. I took 
moderate exercife, calmed my fpirits, and I 
foon found myfelf every day get better. The 
fame regimen reftored all my people. I did 
not fail to add to the lift of the grand and 
fublime difcoveries in medicine, thewarmbath; 
and I am firmly perfuaded that this bath, or 
chance, faved my life. 
When I was perfedly recovered, I refumed 
my 
