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10. The Diffempcrs amongft the Hatives 
(for 1 cannot give fo particular an Account of the 
Diftempers moft predominant among the Indian^) 
are, Scorbutical ^ropfieSy CachexieSy LethargieSt 
SeafoningSy which are an intermitting Fever, or rather 
a continued Fever with quotidian Paroxyfms. Thefc 
are now rarely fharp, but fhew thcmfdves in a lin- 
gering Sicknefs. The Griping of the Guts moftly 
dry, and when the Tormina Ventris ceafe, they gene- 
rally fhoot into the Limbs, and fix there, in a ter- 
rible fort of Gout, taking away the Ufe of the 
Limbs. Thus they will pine away to Skin and >Bone,- 
fo that their Joints .will feem dislocated, and their 
Hands utterly crippled. Sore ThroatSy which the laft 
Year were very frequent, and deemed infectious, run- 
ning generally through whole Families, and, unlefs 
early p'revented, became a cancerous Humour, and 
had Effects like the French^pox. Likewife Tains 
in the Limbsy which I apprehend to have proceeded 
partly from the fame Humour floating up and down 
the Body. Thefe Pains are very exquifite, moftly 
nocturnal ^ for while they walk, if they have the 
Ufe of their -Limbs, they feel the leaft Pain. The 
Oil of a Fifli called a wasTound very effectual 
to cure thefe Pains, arid rdfore the Limbs. I was 
Eye-witnefs when a very worthy Gentlewoman, who 
had loft the Ufe of her Limbs, was intirely recovered 
by the Ufe of this Medicine : For her Teet '^being 
anointed with this Oil, -the Pains flew into her Head ; 
her Head thereupon being anointed, 'the Pain de» 
feended again ; then anointing both Head ^and Feet, 
flie was recover’d. There are three forts of Oils in 
that Country, whofe Virtues, if fully proved> might 
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