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great furprize, was eafy almoft as foon 
as I got on my cloaths : but it return- 
ed as foon as I attempted to lie down 
again. This lafted 17 days, ever free 
from pain while up, and always taken 
about feven hours after lying down, 
either by night or day. Neither the 
Indian bath, blifters, or any thing I 
could think of, did relieve me : but 
getting up always eafed me. It was 
plainly a fpafm of the mufcle trapi- 
zeus j for if I rubbed my back ever 
fo flightly, the pain would inftantly 
remove to the mufcles of the fternum, 
et vice verfa ; yet I could never feel 
it in my fide. Whether it was leaving 
me or not, I cannot fay : but I feem- 
ed to find great relief by drinking 
punch, into which Goa ftone had 
been plentifully grated. It is very 
ftrange, that during the whole time I 
had no fever, or loft my appetite, tho’ 
I grew very weak. 
It rained almoft every day this month : 
and at this time there prevailed a dif- 
order among the Negroes, which, I 
believe, was peculiar to them j for I 
never heard of any white perfon’s 
having it. They were taken with 
pains in their heads, necks, fhoulders, 
breafts, or bellies : it feldom conti- 
nued long in a place, till it got to the 
thigh, where the complaint would 
form. 
