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thereto; but then it will be difficult to conceive, 
why Perfons who are better circumftanced are like- 
wife liable to it : And it is fomewhat extraordinary, 
that, notwithftanding many Endeavours have been 
made towards finding out Remedies equal to this 
Difeafe, none have been dilcover'd, either as Speci- 
fics, or Prefervatives ; for the Inconftancy of the 
Symptoms is fo great, that they are not in the Be- 
ginning to be diftinguifhed from thole which are in 
common to this with {lighter Diftempers ; but the 
principal Complaints are at riifi: a Wearinefs, and 
great Diforder in the Head. 
This Diftcmper dots nor always attack the Ships 
• Europe at their Arrival in the Bay of Cartagena ; 
nor is it very ancient in that Coun r ry$ for what here* 
tofore was called Cbapetonada y lo denominated, as 
thole from Europe were only liable to it, were In- 
digeftions: And though they were in that Climate 
always atrended with Danger, the Women of the 
Country, as they do now, cured them with Eafe, 
efpecially when they are taken in time. The Ships af- 
terwards going from CartagenaioBorto Bello , it was 
there fuccecded with the great Mortality, which was 
always attributed to the Unfeafonablenefs of the Cli- 
mate, and to the Fatigue of the Ships Crews in un- 
loading their Ships, and in the Bufinefs of the Fair 
there. 
The black Vomit was not known at Cartagena y 
nor in its Neighbourhood, until the Years 1729 and 
1750, when firft it carried off a great Part of the 
Crews of the Ships of War, which Don ‘Domingo 
Juftiniani then commanded, and were then there as 
< jiiarda Cojlas . Thcfe Ships were firfl attacked at 
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