toifes do, when they fleep on the top of the Sea*, for they float 
afleep (faith he in a calm day a long time, fo that the Sea- men 
hoife out their Boats and row gently to them, and either ftrike 
them with irons, or enfnare their Legs with a Rope and a run- 
ning Net, and fo take them. He doth not remember any Swim 
or Bladder in them, than what contains their Urine. 
Fourthly , heobferves of the Purging-nuts (of whom fo much 
is faid by Authors, as Ligon, Pifo, Simon Pauli> &c. ) that he 
could never adjuft the Dofe, having given from 3 to 60, with- 
out any effeft in the fame perfon, fo that he never durft rely on 
them 5 yet he adds, that they often do work as is related 
Fifthly y he notes, that he never faw any good effeft of the 
moft innocent Purge during his ftayin the Indies, except in 
Chronical diftempers* nor did he ever almoft give any, after 
frequent tryals had made him cautious, but Pills that were An- 
timonial, or Mercurius vit&, or Vomitive Infufions. 
Sixthly, he relates, that inquiring at the Barhadoes of the Do- 
fiorsand Chirurgions there, about the ufe of opium, fo much 
magnified by Bontius and Pifo, he heard them all condemn it, as 
moft ftupifying and mortal 5 and found, that they us 'd the Lon- 
don-Laudanum, which he obfervd to be very narcetique^ the 
Opium being extracted with Spirit of Wine. But he faith, he had 
a Laudanum of Monfieur LeFcvre^ call'd Laudanum Simplex, 
of torrefied Opium, extraded with diflilfd Vineger and fome o- 
ther Correctives, which ^ affirms never ftupifies, no., nor inclines 
to fleep after 'tis taken, yet immediately eafeth all pain. He 
adds, that he ufed the London- Laudanum feveral times^and found 
two grains to fiupifie fo, that thofe who took it, were almoft 
fenfelefsfor two days, even when it was mixt with purging Pils 
in the Colick\ but that other never rendred them fleepy $ and if 
they fell afleep, and he awaken'd them prefently after, he found 
them as intelligent, as if they had taken nothing of Opium. To 
which he fubjoyns, that he took it himfelf for 14 weeks every 
night in the Bilious Colick, where it immediately ceas'd his 
pains, but perhaps he flept not till two or three hours after ; ta- 
king it with fo much fecurity, that he very feldom weighed it, 
but guefs'd at a Pill of t\vo or three, or (as he found his miftake 
fometime5, whenheweigh'dit outofcuriofity) even four^i/w. 
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