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of a boat, to go a fliore, with great wneftnefs $ fo that if not 
watched, perhaps he might have,leaped into. the fea. The Symp- 
toms were the fame as in the other v only his' whole body feeirfa 
to be much colder 5 yet was he not 'ilnfible of any coldnefs in him- 
felf. I caus'd him to be vomited 5 ' and he was well in his Head, 
* as foon as ever the vomit made him fick at the ftomack, as yet not 
having wrought. I dieted him as the other, and only blouded him 
in the arm. I let thera bloud meerly out of caution (for elfe they 
feem'd well) and to promote Tranfpiration and Sweating: which 
fucceeded according to my defire. 
Undoubtedly the feat of that difeafe is in the ftomack 
and thofe parts adjcyning to it 3 in which the firft concodtion is 
performM, and 'tis highly probab!e,that it principally arifeth from 
the ill diet, by eating too much Salt-meat in Voyages - y the falin 
fteams from the ftomack affedling the Brain in a peculiar 
manner. 
As to the Cure by Vomiting, I fliall not now explain. How 
Vomits work; it fufficeth, that the difeafe was feated in and 
about the Ventricle- and that in hot Countreys, as well as in 
hot feafons, the Rule of Bippoc. takes place, ±Al(ldte per fuperiora. 
I never law any good eifedof the moft innocent Purge during 
my ftay in the Indies, except in Chronicall diftempers $ nor did 
I ever almoft give any (after frequent trials had made me cau- 
tious ; ) but pills that were Antimomal> or Mercnrius vita* or 
Vomitive Itofuftons, And by this method I preferved our fhips 
well, and effeded thefe fpeedy Cures, which I think, none had 
before feenin Jamaica. It is true, of the common fort in the 
other fhips, when we came 'to Barbados, upon view I found many 
Hydropical and Scorbutical: And as foon as w r e came there, I 
caufed all, that were any thing ill, to be vomited and purged with 
Mercurius vita, the Vomitive Infu(ion } and Cambodia 5 by which 
means, and one meals frefb meat, and fome Limons fent them, all 
the diforder!y rabble recover'di fo that only three died, as was 
faid before., in the whole Voyage. Nor would I doubt, again, by 
God's help, to convey over a far greater number with the like 
means md care. 
So far at prefent this Ingenious obferver 5 who perhaps may give 
the Reader another Entertainment of the like nature hereafter. 
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