(7°8) 
condition of health, with which our fliips now Tail, incomparifon 
of what our Anceftors experimented .,than this : Generally all our 
Seamen and PaflTengers let bloud in the Voyage before that time* 
Yet is not that to £>e done rafhly, nor by all in the fame degree of 
Latitude-, for, I carefully obferv'd in our (hips the alteration of 
our bodies upon the change of Climat, and found, that the bloud 
of the Engltfh, which confiftsof parts more grofs ? and is extracted 
from a more fubftantial food, viz. that of Fiefli, than in other 
* Countries,did attenuate,and thepulfes in fome became very lofty, 
full and quick 5 in others, flow 3 yet more lofty and full than be- 
fore. In fome there was a fenfe of pricking in their fle/h, in fome a 
. great dukiefs and oppreffion of fpirits and heavinefs: after which, 
they pafs into a condition of fweating, which purfuei them after- 
wards for fo long a time, as I mention'd. From this agitation of 
humoui s, it is eafie to fhew the reafon,why our Anceftors fell lick, 
and how neceffary it is to bleed., when any feels thofe fymptoms in 
him : for, immediately upon bleeding the pores are open'd, and 
i they falltofweatj and by this courfe, thofe numbers-^f-peepk, 
we carried over with us to tfamaica, arrived fafe. Some I caafed to 
beblouded in 32 degrees, fome in 28, fome in 24, and 23. deg. 
And in all our ihips there died but three. In cur fliip, two had the 
difeafe, fo much talk'dof, called the Calenture; concerning the 
progrefs of which difeafe I can fay nothing 5 for they were thus 
cured prefently. I was talking with one of them, and on a fudden 
he beheld green leaves, as he imagin'd, floating on thefea, which 
yet was Azure- coloured: after that, he began to admire the fine 
woods, which he fancied to be near us. I immediately gave him 
a Vomit of the Glafsoi Antimony in Sack*, which no fooner had 
wrought its effed, but all thofe imaginations vanifhed. At flight 
I gave him fome Conferve of red-Rofes vitriohted , Salt of 
Worm-wood and Diafcordtum: the next day he was blouded 
.at the arm in the morning and in the forehead in the after-noon. 
His diet was water-gruel with cream of T artar in it > and alfo fome 
Prunes ftew'd, I could perceive nothing of any Feaver in the dif- 
eafe - 5 his pulfe was low,flo w and equal 3 his temper rather colder 
than ought to be 3 fo far was he from any fenfe of heat,or discolo- 
ration of his tongue^orthirft. The other perfon imagin'd nothing 
but Groves of Orengesand Limons.and begg'd the opportunity 
