îo8- Travels uUû tk IN DIE S. Part HI. 
I parted from 5r^»7/'o«>' ( the Capital City of the Province of Candkhe^ 
to return to Surrat by the comHoan Road,) and falling fick of a Cho- 
lick by the way , I learned a cure fct it. The Portuguefe call the four forts 
« of Cliolicks that people are troubled with in the Indies (where they are fre- 
hier.-^echin. quent) Mordechin. The firlt is a bare Cholick, but that caufes lliarp Pains -, 
the fécond, belîdes the Pain caufes a Loofnefs. They who are troubled with 
the third, have violent Vomitings with the Pains ^ and the fourth produces 
all the three Symptômes, to wit, Vomiting, Looftiels, and extream Pain -, 
and this laft I take to be the Cholera morbus. Thefe diflempers proceed moft 
commonly from Indigeftion, and caufe fometimes fuch cutting Pains, that 
^ifc™olic'/°'^ they kill a Man in four and twenty hours. The Remedy which is ufed in 
• ne o ic ^1^^ ^^^.^^ againft it, is to heat a Peg of Iron about half as big as ones Finger 
red hot , clap it to the fole of the Patients heel , and hold it there till he 
be no longer able to endure it, fo that the Iron leave a mark behind it : The 
fame muit be done to the other heel with the fame red hot Iron , and that 
Remedy is commonly fo effe£tual that the Pains inftantly ceafe. If the Pa- 
tient be let Blood with that burning, his life will be in evident danger and 
feveral People have told me that when they let Blood before they burn the 
heel, the Patient infallibly dies, juft as many days after he hatîi been let 
Blood, as he was ill before-, but Blood-letting is not dangerous two days af- 
ter the Operation : There are fome who make ufe of Ligatures for this 
diftemper, and bind the Patients head fo faft with a Swathing-band , as if 
they had a mind to fqueeze out his Brains -, they do the fame with his Back, 
Reins , Thighs and Legs -, and when the Patient finds no good of this Li- 
gature, they think him paft cure. 
Loornefî"" ^ ^^'"^'^ aloue is alfo a common and very dangerous diftemper in the Indies, 
■00 ne Î. many die of it, and the leaft over-heating brings it upon one. The Re- 
a fhx^^^ medy is to take two Drachms of torrified Rhubarb^ and a Drachm of Cum- 
min-feed -, all mull: be beatintoa Powder , and taken in Limon-water, or 
(if that be wanting) in Rofe-watcr. The common people of the Indies have' 
no other remedy againft this diftemper , but Rice boyled in water till it be 
dry , they eat it with Milk turned fower, and ufe no other Food as long as 
. . the diftemper lafts -, the fame they ufe for a Bloody Flux. 
I travelled from Bramfour to Surrat with a Banian and a Mula that came 
from Court. . This Mula having reprefented his poverty to the King , ob- 
tained a Penfton from him of Five hundred Roupies, -which amount to about 
Seven hundred and fifty French Livres , ysihich was afligned to him upon a 
Village. It is threefcore and fifteen Leagues from Br<s!w/)o«r to and 
we fpent a fortnight in the Journey -, we found many Towns and Caftles on 
our Road ,and were never an hour without feeing fome Bourg or Village -, 
and feeing Lions many times happen to be I'n the way, there were Sheds or 
Cottages under Trees, whither the Indians betook themfelves in the night- 
time s we crolTed alfo fome Mountains and eight Rivers -, I faw nothing elfe 
but what was very common. We were put in fear of the Troopers of the 
Raja of Badur^ who skulk in the Mountains of Candiche , and roam about 
every v/here , though at prefent their Mafter renders obedience to the Great 
Mogul ^ but we met with none of them , and.arrived fafely at SurraL » . 
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