A
DISCOURSE
OF
THE
State
of
Health
IN
THE
ISLAND
OF
JAMAICA
,
&c.
IT
being
my
business
,
while
in
Jamaica
,
to
consider
the
Health
and
attend
the
Diseases
of
the
place
,
it
was
necessary
to
commit
what
occurred
in
that
affair
to
a
more
faithful
Register
than
my
memory
:
to
the
which
,
that
I
might
better
effect
my
end
,
I
was
forced
often
to
recur
,
and
thereby
to
amend
what
too
easily
imposed
it self
on
my
credence
,
or
else
what
I
was
more
confirmed
in
,
became
the
better
establishment
of
my
practice
.
The
first
Generals
,
whereto
I
referred
my self
,
were
the
Topicks
of
Hippocrates
,
viz.
the
Air
,
the
Place
,
and
the
Waters
,
next
the
Customs
and
manners
of
living
:
and
lastly
the
consequents
of
the
former
,
viz.
the
intemperatures
and
Diseases
either
peculiar
to
the
Tropicks
or
most
usually
found
thereabouts
all
which
may
not
serve
barely
for
speculation
but
the
use
and
benefits
of
the
Inhabitants
,
either
for
their
timely
preventing
or
else
curing
their
incident
Maladies
.
Not
as
if
Jamaica
were
obnoxious
to
more
Diseases
,
and
such
more
frightful
then
are
elsewhere
to
be
found
,
for
the
sequell
will
demonstrate
the
contrary
,
but
least
such
as
are
there
,
prove
more
fatal
for
want
of
being
remarked
:
and
forasmuch
as
no
one
yet
hath
done
that
charitable
office
to
his
neighbour
,
I
cannot
without
rebuke
of
my
conscience
refuse
to
become
a
Samaritan
,
and
by
thereto
make
what
reasonable
provision
I
may
for
the
comfort
and
recovery
of
the
afflicted
:
for
it
doth
not
a
little
uneasily
touch
humanity
to
see
the
burthens
of
nature
aggravated
by
ignorance
of
remedy
,
and
want
of
sutable
assistances
.
Neither
is
it
a
little
confusion
to
be
able
to
do
so
little
in
so
desirable
a
work
;
however
a
single
Talent
may
not
be
napkined
without
guilt
,
and
that
not
to
be
expiated
without
a
double
diligence
.
It
's
true
a
little
labour
is
more
then
doubly
troublesome
in
a
hot
Country
,
where
the
most
sooner
seek
the
shade
,
though
it
be
but
of
an
Ass
,
rather
than
undergo
the
heat
of
the
day
;
wherefore
to
start
any
thing
that
may
exercise
in
a
lazy
country
,
hath
this
in
it
of
praise
,
that
it
's
against
the
grain
,
and
manifests
somewhat
of
self-denial
,
at
least
the
vanity
of
ostentation
or
humor
of
scribling
can
have
small
pretences
here
,
where
there
is
so
little
of
gaity
offered
at
.
And
in
a
place
where
Bookishness
is
not
reasonably
to
be
expected
,
it
may
suffice
,
if
relation
of
matter
of
fact
imploy
the
more
sagacious
in
profitable
deductions
,
or
that
the
present
truths
afford
relief
to
any
one
afflicted
.
For
it
must
needs
be
irksome
to
have
the
pleasures
of
a
summer
country
,
such
as
Jamaica
is
,
interrupted
by
indispositions
and
want
of
list
to
enjoy
what
's
so
plentifully
offered
.
It
's
pity
a
rational
Creature
should
surfeit
of
dilicacy
,
and
not
moderate
his
inclinations
out
of
good
husbandry
to
enjoy
it
the
longer
.
but
since
appetite
is
apt
to
over-rule
our
reasons
,
and
the
desire
of
good
tempts
to
the
nearest
confines
of
evil
,
by
how
much
the
more
desirable
the
place
and
clime
is
,
by
so
much
the
more
need
of
circumspection
:
to
the
which
if
I
might
happily
awaken
my
Country-men
,
I
may
prevent
surprisals
,
which
of
all
is
the
greatest
evil
the
English
usually
lay
open
to
,
through
too
hardy
a
courage
rather
then
remiss
supineness
:
they
being
too
prone
to
slight
their
lives
rather
than
be
curious
in
their
preservation
;
a
temper
happy
and
agreeable
enough
to
the
northern
Climes
,
but
unsutable
to
the
torrid
Zone
,
where
through
the
great
activity
of
Nature
most
sudden
changes
are
effected
,
a
sound
health
oft
precipitated
into
Distemper
,
and
such
Distempers
posting
to
the
Grave
,
ere
the
sluggish
observer
be
awakened
to
prevention
.
To
nick
opportunity
,
is
wisdom
in
all
things
;
and
where
such
opportunities
are
most
swift
,
most
advertence
is
requisite
not
to
slip
the
seasons
;
and
herein
lyes
the
necessary
sagacity
of
a
West
Indian
practicer
,
Hic
labor
hoc
opus
est
,
as
will
more
evidently
appear
under
our
first
Topick
,
viz.
the
necessary
brisk
moving
Air
.
CHAP.
I.
Of
the
Air
of
Jamaica
.
THe
Air
of
Jamaica
,
as
it
may
have
an
agreement
with
all
betwixt
the
Tropicks
,
is
therein
first
to
be
considered
,
viz.
in
its
general
heat
&
moisture
,
the
one
contemperating
the
other
to
render
the
Torrid
Zone
habitable
.
Its
heat
is
the
necessary
product
of
the
neighbouring
Sun
,
as
its
moisture
is
from
that
of
the
Moon
;
from
both
flow
the
beneficial
as
well
as
necessary
Brezes
rendring
the
Air
different
from
any
on
the
other
side
the
Tropicks
,
and
therefore
differently
to
be
considered
as
the
cause
of
Health
and
Diseases
.
Though
the
wind
bloweth
where
it
listeth
,
yet
it
's
in
general
somewhat
regular
,
and
observes
its
times
,
and
keeps
or
makes
its
seasons
,
no
one
whose
observance
hath
been
but
slight
,
can
easily
doubt
:
For
whilst
the
Sun
by
its
direct
Rayes
threatens
most
to
parch
,
then
(
as
there
is
most
need
thereof
)
the
more
forcible
Brezes
fan
most
:
wherefore
I
stick
not
to
conclude
the
Sun
to
be
the
apparent
cause
of
the
brisk
moving
Air
,
or
daily
Sea
Brezes
,
thereby
rendring
Apollo
opportunely
sollicitous
of
the
health
of
his
most
immediate
subjects
by
so
reasonable
provision
therefore
.
For
of
necessity
all
things
must
be
suffocated
and
dy
between
the
Tropicks
,
did
not
the
extraordinary
heat
generate
the
extraordinary
winds
to
give
a
sutable
supply
of
often
to
be
changed
breath
,
ventilating
our
Lungs
with
renovating
changes
of
fresher
air
.
Which
happy
effect
though
it
acknowledge
the
Sun
as
its
male
parent
,
requires
also
as
pregnant
a
Womb
of
receptive
moisture
to
bring
forth
the
happy
and
necessary
Brezes
:
whereto
the
Moon
,
as
a
handy
Midwife
to
Nature
,
most
readily
affords
assistances
,
not
only
from
her
own
moist
Rayes
,
but
by
the
signal
power
on
the
Ocean
,
where
unloosing
the
close
saline
Bonds
of
the
briny
Main
,
she
adapts
thereby
the
parts
volatile
for
a
daily
flight
,
as
oft
as
the
urging
Sun
stimulates
the
necessary
succour
of
the
cooling
Brezes
.
But
Brezes
or
moving
Air
being
twofold
,
and
generally
producing
different
effects
,
as
well
as
they
have
different
times
of
their
blowing
,
force
us
to
assign
a
different
cause
of
their
productive
originals
.
For
as
the
Moon
by
loosing
the
saline
Bonds
of
the
Sea
(
which
is
demonstratively
to
be
proved
it
doth
)
affords
daily
matter
for
the
sea
Brezes
:
So
the
stagnated
Air
,
harbouring
in
mountainous
Caverns
and
woody
confinements
,
actuated
by
the
night
lights
and
starry
influences
,
administer
sufficient
matter
for
the
night
winds
called
the
land
Brezes
,
both
which
differently
impress
in
point
of
Health
:
For
as
the
Sea
Brezes
partaking
of
the
universal
vivifying
saline
nature
are
found
to
be
most
healthful
and
agreeable
to
life
,
as
resisting
and
defending
from
putrefaction
;
so
the
stagnated
Air
impregnated
by
mineral
Gas
and
the
still
variable
Moon
,
never
ceaseth
to
incline
to
alterative
changes
,
and
such
as
savour
of
putrefaction
and
death
:
wherefore
from
their
cause
,
as
well
as
we
find
by
experience
,
I
conclude
,
the
two
Brezes
respect
health
variously
:
The
solar
and
saline
ones
most
concurring
to
health
,
as
the
Lunar
and
putrefactive
ones
do
to
death
and
dissolution
.
From
the
latter
spring
the
great
encrease
and
multiplications
in
the
Indies
,
as
from
the
former
the
worth
and
vigor
of
their
product
,
both
Brezes
seem
necessary
from
their
cause
,
and
to
their
ends
,
and
a
virtue
is
to
be
made
of
such
as
well
as
a
necessity
entails
them
on
the
Places
where
they
are
found
;
betwixt
both
the
Air
is
almost
always
kept
in
motion
,
which
otherwise
through
its
great
heat
and
moisture
must
egregiously
putrefy
,
and
thence
rather
hatch
the
plagues
of
Egypt
,
producing
Infects
and
such
like
generations
,
instead
of
more
noble
and
perfect
animals
.
The
division
of
Day
and
Night
being
smore
equal
throughout
the
year
than
in
Europe
,
divides
the
seasons
of
those
two
sort
of
Brezes
more
equally
,
also
they
generally
have
neer
twelve
hours
for
their
interchangeable
blowings
,
though
sometimes
they
may
borrow
of
each
other
,
viz.
the
Land
Brezes
intrench
on
the
time
of
the
Sea's
,
as
the
Sea
Brezes
do
sometimes
on
the
usual
time
of
the
land
Brezes
:
Besides
the
seasons
of
the
norths
which
much
alter
the
usual
course
of
the
Winds
as
well
as
of
health
.
These
norths
are
smart
winds
and
cold
,
blowing
from
off
the
land
with
unusual
force
and
continuance
,
being
particular
not
general
winds
,
either
from
the
mountainous
Tracts
of
Jamaica
it self
,
and
then
only
to
be
felt
on
the
south
side
,
and
not
far
to
Sea
,
or
else
arising
from
Cuba
,
and
then
chiefly
if
not
only
remarked
on
the
North
side
of
Jamaica
:
But
yet
sometimes
so
strong
as
to
excite
the
same
effort
of
winds
in
the
mountainous
passages
,
where
being
increased
,
it
's
propagated
to
the
South
,
and
becomes
a
thorow
and
severe
North
to
the
whole
Island
and
neighbourhood
of
Jamaica
,
which
comes
neerest
to
the
windward
Island
tumultuating
Haricanoes
,
but
never
one
quarter
so
mutinous
or
afflicting
.
The
usual
seasons
of
the
Norths
is
while
the
Sun
is
most
remote
in
its
Capricorn
progress
:
For
then
the
cold
umbrages
of
the
mountains
have
best
opportunities
to
sally
forth
,
while
the
over-ruling
Phoebus
is
most
absent
with
his
strong
sea
Brezes
:
The
season
of
these
Norths
is
most
fruitful
in
the
cruciating
Belly
ach
,
and
especially
it
endangers
such
who
have
been
once
afflicted
therewith
,
likewise
sore
Eyes
,
sore
Throats
,
and
Tertians
take
oft
this
time
of
assaulting
disposed
Bodies
,
But
to
return
to
our
most
usual
and
orderly
diurnal
and
nocturnal
Brezes
,
the
better
to
defend
from
the
latter
as
well
as
rejoyce
in
the
former
,
besides
what
hath
been
said
to
both
as
to
their
effective
originals
,
in
their
evident
qualities
vastly
differ
:
for
the
land
Brezes
have
a
far
more
sensible
chilliness
than
those
from
the
Sea
;
the
general
occasion
as
to
the
Air
of
the
Tertian
and
Quartan
Agues
:
for
while
the
pores
by
daily
Sweating
or
insensible
transpirations
are
egregiously
open
,
the
suddain
change
of
the
land
Brezes
surprising
the
open
Pores
easily
invade
the
disposed
body
with
an
aguish
Inclination
,
Nature
being
sensible
of
her
intruding
Enemy
oft
violently
shuts
and
keeps
too
too
close
the
outlets
of
the
skin
,
unadvisedly
imprisoning
what
ought
be
discharged
:
hence
the
prisoners
become
a
four
ferment
to
the
Juices
of
the
whole
body
,
first
shivering
and
chilling
the
extream
parts
,
and
after
inflaming
the
whole
in
a
hot
paroxysm
;
of
which
more
under
our
Chapter
of
Diseases
.
It
may
not
be
improper
to
remark
,
that
those
Brezes
of
the
night
do
less
injury
to
new
comers
from
the
colder
Europe
,
than
to
the
more
antient
inhabitants
,
whose
pores
being
as
it
were
moulded
into
the
bore
of
the
Indian
Air
,
are
of
larger
size
and
more
receptive
of
the
chilling
Brezes
than
such
as
come
from
the
northern
parts
:
hence
also
such
as
pass
directly
out
of
Europe
hither
are
not
so
easily
assaulted
with
fevorish
attracts
as
those
from
the
Carib
Isles
:
for
those
little
tracts
of
land
of
Barbadoes
,
Nevis
,
Monserat
,
&c.
being
well
opened
,
and
therefore
affording
nothing
so
much
of
night
Brezes
as
the
large
woody
mountains
of
Jamaica
do
,
hath
not
inured
them
thereto
,
while
their
greater
diurnal
heat
hath
sufficiently
disposed
them
to
a
most
ready
reception
of
the
night
cold
Invaders
,
of
which
more
under
the
head
of
place
.
Let
's
here
make
some
further
progress
,
though
on
this
airy
Subject
,
and
consider
next
it
's
thickness
and
moisture
.
That
active
heat
rarefyes
and
thins
,
is
very
true
;
and
therefore
it
may
seem
a
Paradox
,
to
assert
the
Air
of
Jamaica
to
be
eminently
thick
,
while
the
Clime
is
so
hot
:
but
yet
that
de
facto
it
is
so
,
and
for
great
reason
must
be
so
,
it
behoves
me
to
evince
.
Air
as
Air
,
in
its
self
and
without
additional
mixtures
,
is
to
a
proverb
thin
:
so
that
to
enquire
into
its
first
essentialls
or
quiddity
ought
to
afford
but
a
jejune
notion
;
yet
as
it
causeth
real
effects
,
and
carrieth
so
great
a
share
of
the
most
manifest
impressions
of
the
Universe
,
it
ought
not
to
be
neglected
in
a
physical
enquiry
.
Every
one
breathing
knows
or
feels
what
's
meant
by
the
word
;
and
as
it
hath
generally
been
esteemed
an
element
,
it
admits
of
no
composing
mixture
.
But
since
it
is
demonstrated
of
late
,
to
have
great
elasticity
or
central
Spring
of
its
motion
,
which
alwayes
ariseth
from
centration
,
or
contraction
of
somewhat
,
I
consider
it
therefore
as
a
most
thin
vest
or
mantle
of
grosser
bodies
,
without
which
our
senses
can
act
on
nothing
;
and
the
which
,
as
it
's
variously
altered
and
changed
by
diversities
and
accumulations
of
bodies
,
becomes
differently
beneficial
or
noxious
to
life
:
but
as
in
it self
not
stuffed
out
with
grosser
bodies
,
it
may
well
be
apprehended
as
contracting
and
shrinking
into
its
self
:
hence
reasonably
it
may
be
most
cold
,
and
a
general
cooler
:
when
therefore
it
's
sensibly
hot
,
it
must
necessarily
be
thick
,
and
from
the
great
resistance
of
its
inmates
be
disposed
to
quickest
motion
,
or
without
such
motion
it
must
necessarily
resolve
into
putrefaction
,
and
break
up
the
old
mansion
for
a
newer
dress
or
outward
appearance
.
It
may
not
be
without
some
probable
shew
,
that
from
this
Elasticity
of
the
Air
,
when
refined
and
separated
through
the
porous
Lungs
,
that
the
Systole
,
or
contracting
power
of
the
heart
may
first
be
put
into
act
,
and
that
then
the
heart
from
its
concentrated
heat
may
be
pushed
into
its
Diastole
or
enlargement
,
so
beginning
and
and
so
continuing
our
vital
motions
from
the
same
springs
that
give
motion
to
the
greater
World
.
But
to
run
that
Elasticity
to
its
first
cause
and
the
heat
to
its
,
would
transport
me
into
improper
suggestions
for
this
place
,
and
therefore
at
least
now
I
shall
be
content
to
take
them
both
as
I
find
them
,
viz.
as
they
two
constitute
the
Jamaica
thick
,
yet
brisk
moving
Air
.
There
remains
yet
another
necessary
quality
viz.
that
of
Moisture
:
for
thick
and
hot
must
be
too
harsh
for
life
without
softning
moisture
.
Male
qualities
can
never
be
benign
enough
without
amorous
mixtures
of
Female
softness
;
thus
Male
and
Female
created
he
them
,
and
they
replenished
the
earth
,
The
Air
of
Jamaica
is
eminent
herein
,
and
therefore
most
agreeable
to
women
,
benificial
to
their
living
,
incuding
their
conceptions
and
facilitating
their
Births
:
but
yet
not
so
far
impregnating
,
as
if
they
,
like
the
Spanish
Ginnets
,
might
be
impressed
by
the
Wind
to
a
fruitfulness
,
without
the
Airiness
of
a
Male
consort
.
It
's
evident
,
maugre
the
false
reports
of
the
designing
Spaniard
concerning
Jamaica
,
that
it
abounds
with
Children
,
as
who
so
when
he
lands
at
Port
-
Royal
,
may
convince
himself
at
the
easie
rate
of
his
first
sight
.
It
's
true
,
among
so
great
a
crowd
of
young
many
will
drop
,
as
all
the
world
over
,
ere
they
arrive
their
riper
age
.
The
moisture
of
their
infant
state
complying
with
that
of
the
air
must
necessarily
breed
worms
,
which
is
almost
the
whole
of
evil
,
ordinarily
besiegeth
children
to
their
hazard
;
of
which
in
its
more
proper
place
.
That
the
Air
here
is
egregiously
moist
,
the
very
keys
in
our
pockets
will
easily
open
and
demonstrate
its
truth
,
and
that
moisture
is
not
only
such
,
but
notoriously
nitrous
;
hence
it
may
well
work
on
mineral
bodies
and
corrode
them
with
rust
,
as
we
see
it
doth
.
The
great
quantities
of
salt-Peter
brought
into
Europe
from
the
East-Indies
,
evinceth
its
great
store
to
be
found
in
such
like
hot
Countries
as
they
are
,
and
every
way
to
be
equalled
by
the
West
in
all
such
products
:
from
the
same
cause
of
abounding
nitrous
parts
in
the
Air
,
our
Rains
are
so
fruitful
and
our
Dews
so
vastly
penetrating
,
that
they
equal
if
not
out-do
that
of
Snow
water
.
Hence
it
is
,
the
moisture
of
our
Air
is
not
so
putrefactive
as
might
be
expected
from
its
heat
and
moisture
,
did
not
its
Nitre
eminently
season
it
with
a
saline
preservation
.
Neither
yet
doth
our
heat
cause
such
thirst
as
the
same
would
of
necessity
in
Europe
:
Forasmuch
as
the
nitrous
Air
resolving
clammy
thicknings
and
furrings
of
our
mouths
,
answers
one
end
of
moisture
,
and
consequently
prevents
thirstings
:
From
the
same
cause
generally
our
bellies
are
more
open
and
lax
to
the
daily
discharge
of
excrementions
Burthens
.
It
may
not
be
improper
being
fallen
into
this
nitrous
account
of
the
Air
,
to
speak
something
of
that
thundering
salt
,
which
hath
made
such
a
noise
in
the
world
,
especially
since
the
invention
of
Gunpowder
,
whose
principal
ingredient
being
Nitre
,
hath
brought
it
into
daily
remark
as
well
as
into
greater
use
:
Nitre
therefore
,
to
describe
it
,
and
make
good
the
description
by
experiments
,
is
to
every
ones
taste
a
cooling
Salt
,
to
every
ones
experience
volatile
and
greatly
penetrating
,
therefore
cleansing
and
scouring
,
possessed
with
a
remarkable
Sulphur
and
an
internal
bitterness
.
All
which
sensible
qualities
point
at
its
being
and
compositions
,
which
Nature
elaborates
from
various
subjects
,
on
which
art
it self
in
some
most
happily
imitates
.
That
all
Air
hath
nitrous
parts
,
though
some
far
more
then
others
,
is
no
difficult
belief
:
but
how
it
comes
by
such
is
nothing
so
easily
to
be
evinced
.
The
most
eminent
disposer
of
our
visible
heat
is
the
Sun
,
all
light
contracted
proves
hot
,
and
the
extremity
thereof
Fire
,
the
passage
or
medium
of
light
from
its
great
Source
to
the
earth
is
soft
yeilding
Air
;
and
that
already
hath
been
said
to
be
a
contracting
vest
of
Bodies
,
and
therefore
it
will
not
be
hard
to
apprehend
how
it
may
invellope
and
grasp
to
it self
warm
Particles
of
light
,
and
thereby
give
being
to
this
universal
inmate
,
viz.
the
Nitre
of
the
Air
which
while
but
lightly
tinctured
manifests
but
little
thereof
,
but
through
daily
renovations
of
the
same
action
grows
satiate
,
and
falls
by
its
own
weight
to
the
ground
:
Besides
,
from
the
Earth
,
and
eminantly
from
the
Sea
,
the
united
rebounding
heat
ascending
its
neerest
air
therein
is
captivated
,
and
fashioned
into
this
new
form
of
nitrous
Salt
;
and
to
conclude
this
deviation
,
the
Sea
salt
it self
,
though
so
egregiously
fixed
,
that
Fire
moves
it
little
,
even
that
is
wholly
converted
into
pure
Nitre
and
a
fixed
insipid
Earth
,
as
by
undoubted
experience
I
have
evinced
to
my self
:
So
then
for
our
great
heat
between
the
Tropicks
,
the
moisture
of
the
air
and
our
neerness
in
Jamaica
to
the
surrounding
Sea
:
We
cannot
but
expect
,
as
we
find
our
Air
to
be
very
nitrous
,
thence
penetrating
and
thence
cooling
,
averse
in
its
nature
to
the
coagulating
stone
,
in
humane
Body
a
good
defence
and
security
against
scorbutick
affects
,
a
true
cooling
Febrifuge
.
Hence
our
Fevers
arerarely
continued
but
generally
intermitted
ones
,
of
which
else
where
,
hence
to
conclude
this
Chapter
of
the
air
of
Jamaica
,
the
contagious
plague
is
well
and
maturely
prohibited
inhabiting
our
Air
,
the
which
,
to
summ
up
all
,
is
vifying
hot
,
and
multiplyingly
moist
,
incorporating
thick
,
and
spirituously
brisk
and
moving
,
by
its
nitrosity
piercing
and
cleansing
,
in
all
most
proper
to
increase
life
,
sutable
to
the
necessity
of
the
place
.
CHAP.
2.
Of
the
Place
.
JAmaica
being
an
Island
of
its
peculiar
Form
,
scituated
in
the
degrees
of
17.29
.
with
its
references
to
its
neighbouring
Islands
and
the
South
Continent
being
variously
lyable
to
Currents
,
to
Norths
,
South's
,
and
South-west
Winds
.
Its
diurnal
and
nocturnal
Brezes
affords
peculiar
considerations
,
both
as
to
seasons
and
states
of
health
.
First
as
it
is
an
Island
,
't
is
more
sutable
to
Islanders
;
as
to
its
form
,
it
seems
fitted
for
the
resistance
of
Hariconoes
,
to
which
this
Island
hath
not
yet
been
,
and
I
presume
never
may
be
subject
:
For
the
whole
is
a
long
narrow
Tract
of
land
,
swelling
in
the
midst
into
the
continued
heights
of
mountains
,
running
from
the
East
to
the
West
:
whereby
the
north
Winds
become
divided
from
the
South
,
and
the
East
and
West
are
both
wedged
asunder
to
the
diminution
of
their
force
,
from
the
figure
of
the
place
.
Therefore
it
becomes
less
lyable
,
if
not
wholly
free
,
from
those
destructive
tumults
of
huddling
winds
,
which
desolate
sometimes
and
always
at
the
seasons
of
their
blowings
affright
other
the
lesser
Islands
:
The
figure
of
this
Island
resembles
most
a
Saddle
or
many
Saddles
,
the
most
inhabited
and
planted
places
are
the
plainer
skirts
and
descents
,
as
most
neer
the
exporting
and
importing
places
of
the
Island
.
Yet
the
more
remote
mountains
are
not
without
their
eminent
desirableness
,
as
being
generally
best
wooded
and
watered
,
and
when
opened
,
most
wholsome
and
agreeable
,
pleasant
to
the
English
Temperament
,
as
being
cooler
and
the
Air
thinner
:
Besides
the
mould
is
most
unctuous
and
fruitful
,
having
been
a
long
time
defended
and
shaded
by
its
mighty
Bowers
,
from
the
fierce
Rapes
of
the
fiery
Phaebus
.
The
coolness
of
the
mountainous
tracts
so
vastly
differing
from
the
hotter
neighbouring
confines
of
the
Sea
,
render
health
more
difficultly
to
be
preserved
in
those
who
pass
immediately
from
one
to
the
other
,
but
that
is
for
want
of
due
advertency
of
one
and
the
other
place
,
and
sutable
provision
for
that
change
,
which
hereafter
I
shall
sufficiently
remark
,
having
experienced
the
same
sufficiently
on
my self
,
to
my
satisfaction
and
safety
:
after
first
having
suffered
in
such
a
travel
,
by
the
invasion
of
a
severe
Tertian
.
But
to
return
to
the
more
inhabited
parts
of
this
Island
,
and
to
salute
our
new
Comers
at
the
most
eminent
place
of
Port-Royal
,
which
is
seated
on
the
south
side
of
the
Island
,
in
the
degrees
17.29
.
On
the
end
of
a
long
spit
of
sandy
Land
,
after
it
having
run
twelve
miles
from
the
Mountains
foot
into
the
Sea
,
framing
with
other
most
admirable
helps
of
the
salt
Pond
,
Mountains
covert
,
the
incomparable
Land
lockt
Harbour
most
properly
stiled
Port
Royal
,
a
place
as
agreeably
seated
for
health
and
wholsome
air
,
a
for
exportations
and
importations
and
defence
.
The
latter
being
more
proper
for
others
on
sutable
occasions
,
to
expatiate
on
,
I
leave
the
healthy
part
to
our
present
remarks
,
and
therein
matter
of
Fact
hath
sufficiently
convinced
me
for
nigh
five
years
,
and
the
reasonableness
thereof
bids
fair
to
secure
for
the
future
.
For
the
salt
Water
washing
it
on
both
sides
with
the
great
preservative
and
balsamick
friend
of
life
,
defends
from
putrefactive
inclintion
,
neither
yet
renders
such
a
place
incident
to
the
Scurvy
(
as
usually
in
cold
northern
Climes
't
is
wont
)
for
here
the
most
fixed
sea
Salt
through
the
nature
of
the
Heat
,
Air
,
and
heavenly
Blas
,
is
readily
volatilized
,
and
thereby
cures
in
stead
of
causing
scorbutick
affects
.
This
Spirit
of
Salt
relieves
what
the
fixed
Salt
inflicts
in
our
northern
Sea
confines
,
of
this
well
seasoned
Air
Port-Royal
partakes
doubly
for
any
other
part
of
the
Island
,
because
seated
in
the
midst
of
this
preserving
pikle
:
So
that
when
the
land
Brezes
reach
this
place
,
they
must
needs
be
first
blended
with
the
well
leavening
Air
of
the
Harbour
it self
,
whereby
its
noxiousness
becomes
well
corrected
and
far
less
injurious
.
Besides
,
the
nature
of
this
sandy
tract
is
such
,
as
well
to
concur
with
its
wholsom
air
,
for
it
's
eminently
dry
,
and
thereby
an
imbiber
of
the
greatest
rains
,
leaving
no
stagnating
Water
to
putrefy
and
corrupt
the
Air
,
thus
the
steril
Sands
become
occasionally
fruitful
in
healthfulness
.
And
what
is
not
so
proper
for
Herbage
is
more
happy
in
being
agreeable
to
humane
Nature
,
and
for
propagating
the
Stock
of
Adam
with
the
first
signal
blessing
of
increase
and
multiply
.
But
I
must
not
dwell
too
long
in
one
place
,
having
so
much
to
touch
at
,
especially
the
fair
Ligania
inviting
their
greedy
eye
to
a
present
inquiry
.
This
compact
settlement
is
joyn'd
by
its
mountains
Easterly
to
the
first
runnings
out
of
our
extended
sandy
tract
,
whereof
Port-Royal
graces
as
well
as
defends
the
one
end
,
and
these
Mountains
the
other
,
which
seem
to
make
one
point
of
a
Bow
,
for
such
a
figure
best
explicates
Ligania
.
May
it
always
abide
in
its
strength
,
projecting
its
numerous
shafts
as
their
Decus
and
Tutamen
of
the
whole
Island
:
the
string
of
this
lovely
Bow
is
the
most
convenient
Harbour
of
Port
Royall
,
from
whence
the
expatiating
levell
Land
and
large
Savannas
crowd
backward
the
swelling
Mountains
many
a
fair
Mile
,
affording
a
most
benign
Seat
to
numerous
settlements
:
this
pleasant
tract
is
well
advanced
by
its
sweeter
profit
,
while
it
unlades
it self
of
great
quantities
of
the
best
Sugar
;
and
that
so
easily
as
to
dissolve
little
by
its
transporting
charge
,
which
conducing
to
its
plentifull
accommodations
,
and
being
thus
nigh
,
daily
supplies
of
conveniencies
render
Ligania
to
be
a
most
grateful
and
healthy
place
:
the
North
west
end
whereof
affords
the
other
point
of
our
Bow
directing
a
further
journey
:
for
there
the
parting
River
of
de
Coure
remembers
us
of
St.
Jago
de
la
viega
seated
on
the
side
of
the
same
about
six
Miles
from
the
Harbour
.
It
is
this
River
which
supplies
the
dayly
drink
of
the
Port
,
as
well
as
its
more
neighbouring
place
,
called
Passage
Fort
,
the
fair
hopefull
beginning
of
a
larger
Town
,
distant
from
Port
Royall
about
two
leagues
,
quickly
passed
over
by
the
delightfull
as
well
as
the
convenient
transports
of
Jamaica
built
Wherries
,
whereof
many
a
score
plying
both
on
the
one
side
and
the
other
side
administer
every
way
sutable
convenience
of
most
ready
Communication
.
Thus
we
bring
our
new
Comer
from
the
sandy
point
to
the
more
apparent
Terra
ferma
of
Jamaica
,
where
I
being
instead
of
a
Mercury
to
the
unacquainted
,
I
cannot
but
tell
him
once
for
all
,
that
this
place
as
well
as
all
our
immediate
bordering
places
on
the
sea
round
the
whole
Island
are
more
proper
for
the
well
inured
Jamaica
Man
than
any
later
arrived
persons
:
for
the
Air
here
as
well
as
the
water
are
rarely
so
good
as
more
high
in
the
well
opened
Country
.
Let
's
therefore
being
welcome
here
,
pass
on
our
most
pleasant
Road
to
the
Town
of
St.
Jago
a
very
fair
Town
,
through
the
enlargement
of
many
streets
beautified
with
divers
Churches
and
regular
Buildings
,
while
it
was
the
Residence
of
the
lazy
Spaniards
,
who
here
contented
themselves
with
easie
pleasure
,
comitted
their
planting
to
the
care
of
their
slaving
Negro's
:
whereas
now
their
more
industrious
successors
live
more
sprinkled
abroad
,
wheree're
their
thriving
concerns
require
the
presence
of
the
Master
,
leaving
this
Town
more
thinly
dwelt
in
,
having
first
been
much
spoiled
by
the
conquering
Army
or
ruinous
neglects
since
.
However
there
remains
yet
a
good
seat
for
a
large
Town
,
being
well
accommodated
with
a
free
open
Air
,
from
the
wide
Savanna
wherein
it
's
plac'd
,
supplied
with
water
from
the
River
de
Coure
running
by
its
side
,
furnished
plentifull
with
the
grasing
Herds
and
Flocks
,
sporting
in
its
view
,
though
sometimes
forced
to
go
further
a
Field
for
their
daily
Food
,
the
soyl
having
so
long
lay
open
to
the
sterilating
Sun
,
it
must
needs
be
dry
and
afford
more
health
to
the
Inhabitants
of
the
Town
than
plenty
of
Herbage
to
their
grasing
Cattle
.
But
the
large
quantity
of
their
far
extending
Savannaes
,
and
the
skirts
of
woods
well
supply
the
shortness
of
their
grass
,
in
their
dry
times
generally
affording
Milk
for
their
Babes
and
good
flesh
for
their
stronger
men
.
This
Town
being
well
seated
both
for
health
and
the
conveniency
of
the
whole
Island
,
becomes
the
place
of
distributing
Justice
to
the
whole
:
the
grand
Courts
being
kept
there
,
as
well
such
as
make
as
execute
the
laws
;
and
to
give
life
to
all
,
our
gracious
Soveraign's
mediated
presence
shines
usually
here
in
their
Excellencies
ordinary
residences
.
After
which
I
need
say
nothing
more
for
St.
Jago
de
viega
but
pass
on
in
our
pleasant
Savannaes
or
Indian
,
Fields
(
for
such
these
Savannaes
are
conjectured
to
have
been
)
and
while
we
journey
,
refresh
our
sight
sometimes
with
the
numerous
herds
of
larger
oxen
,
in
whose
labour
there
is
profit
,
sometimes
with
the
sporting
of
the
wanton
Calves
,
and
delight
our
ears
with
the
sweet
breathed
Cowes
,
whose
lowings
echoing
make
Rural
musick
,
delightfull
at
least
to
the
happy
owners
whose
dwellings
ever
now
and
then
salute
the
passengers
with
their
innocent
aspects
:
and
by
this
time
viz.
of
an
hour
we
are
arrived
the
Bridge
,
eminent
for
it
's
remarkable
good
water
;
and
here
we
must
needs
drink
,
as
Custome
is
,
and
by
drinking
commend
the
same
,
as
the
best
of
any
River
water
in
Jamaica
.
When
passed
the
Bridge
,
we
still
continue
in
open
Air
Savannaes
,
where
jogging
on
we
are
still
affected
as
before
with
the
brutal
Crowa
,
and
soon
after
surprized
with
more
sutable
appearances
:
For
on
the
margin
of
the
rising
hils
which
still
terminate
our
dexterous
aspects
;
the
most
remarkable
Sugar-works
allure
us
thither
:
The
stranger
is
apt
to
ask
what
Village
it
is
(
for
every
compleated
Sugar-work
is
no
less
,
the
various
and
many
buildings
bespeaking
as
much
at
first
sight
)
for
besides
the
more
large
mansion
House
with
its
offices
,
the
works
,
such
as
the
well
contrived
Mill
,
the
spacious
boiling
House
,
the
large
receptive
curing
Houses
,
still
House
,
commodious
Stables
for
the
grinding
Cattle
,
lodging
for
the
Over-seer
,
and
white
Servants
,
working
Shops
for
the
necessary
Smiths
,
others
for
the
framing
Carpenters
,
and
Coopers
:
To
all
which
when
we
add
the
streets
of
the
Negroes
Houses
,
no
one
will
question
to
call
such
compleated
Sugar-Work
a
small
Town
or
Village
,
as
well
for
the
number
of
the
Inhabitants
as
Buildings
,
where
since
we
are
once
come
,
it
is
but
civil
to
wish
them
health
,
at
least
by
remarking
somewhat
conducing
thereto
,
as
first
,
though
water
is
a
most
necessary
conveniency
,
and
its
plenty
and
goodness
a
great
accommodation
to
such
a
settlement
,
yet
forasmuch
as
the
Air
it self
is
very
moist
,
we
ought
to
covet
as
dry
a
living
as
may
be
,
and
therefore
not
to
lodge
our selves
or
servants
,
receptive
of
additional
moisture
either
from
Ponds
or
Rivers
:
For
I
have
observed
it
matter
of
Fact
where
such
care
hath
been
omitted
,
more
lives
then
elsewhere
have
flooded
into
Styx
.
Besides
,
for
the
great
preservation
,
a
dry
lodging
,
removed
at
least
one
story
from
the
ground
,
it
is
approved
the
best
security
of
our
white
Servants
;
as
for
the
Negroes
,
though
their
lodgings
be
neer
the
ground
,
they
force
off
the
moisture
of
the
Earth
by
their
constant
fires
,
and
thereby
become
healthy
,
moreover
I
cannot
but
mention
a
necessary
restraint
on
the
profuse
drinking
of
the
Rum
:
Forasmuch
as
its
excess
most
strangely
renders
skirrous
the
Liver
&
Spleen
,
whence
ill
and
waterish
Blood
and
at
length
Dropsies
,
which
intimation
besides
matter
of
Fact
,
I
first
received
from
the
learned
Johannes
Antonides
Vanderlinden
,
whose
practice
leading
him
to
the
observation
of
strange
skirrous
Spleens
in
Frisia
,
he
reasonably
concluded
such
to
arise
from
their
adusting
Drink
of
Brandy
,
of
which
elsewhere
:
I
only
now
admonish
being
strengthened
with
reason
and
observation
,
that
the
use
of
Rum
exceed
not
the
due
proportion
of
the
judicious
Adjuster
:
However
if
it
chance
to
rain
and
wet
the
Labourers
in
the
Field
,
it
is
agreeable
if
not
necessary
to
fortify
with
a
moderate
Dram
,
and
sometimes
more
liberally
,
thereby
to
encourage
their
strenuous
exercise
of
dancing
,
whereby
they
may
alleviate
their
slavery
through
delight
as
well
as
by
exercising
their
Limbs
adapt
them
more
strong
for
work
:
Thus
having
visited
one
sugar
Work
for
all
,
and
seen
the
large
Savannas
,
animated
with
flocks
of
Sheep
,
Herds
of
Cattel
,
and
gangs
of
the
Barbary
breed
Horses
;
we
suppose
their
repeated
continuance
of
the
same
through
the
precincts
of
St.
Dorothy
:
St.
Johns
Vere
,
Clarendine
,
and
St.
Elizabeth
.
Through
all
which
,
though
worthy
of
visiting
,
it
were
too
tedious
to
travel
our
new
Comer
,
I
will
only
now
refresh
him
with
a
surpassing
Rarity
,
of
a
most
strange
Tree
or
two
,
worth
his
pains
to
visit
:
The
one
is
a
shining
Tree
,
which
about
the
Month
of
November
bears
such
starry
lights
on
its
Body
or
Bark
,
that
the
Horse
as
well
as
the
unknown
Traveller
is
strangely
affrighted
thereat
,
't
is
a
living
as
well
as
thriving
Tree
:
Not
such
an
one
whose
rotten
wood
may
solve
the
appearance
,
neither
doth
any
Gloworm
or
such
like
Animal
lodge
there
,
to
give
us
the
reason
of
the
light
,
neither
yet
is
it
a
transient
shining
made
by
any
reflections
of
light
elsewhere
,
but
it
is
such
as
to
abide
some
miles
carrying
it
,
and
some
hours
after
its
separation
in
a
small
part
of
the
bark
from
the
Tree
it self
:
For
I
carrying
the
same
in
my
pocket
,
and
after
looking
for
my
wooden
Gem
found
its
lustre
persevering
,
so
that
I
read
by
the
light
thereof
,
and
by
most
exact
scrutiny
I
could
never
observe
Worm
or
liquid
Gum
superadded
,
but
by
the
next
morn
(
for
this
was
about
midnight
)
my
once
lighted
Bark
shews
me
nothing
else
but
it
s
ordinary
dark
self
:
This
Tree
did
not
only
once
impose
on
the
credulous
fancy
or
disturbed
Brain
of
a
single
person
,
but
every
year
shews
the
like
to
who
so
lists
to
view
it
;
besides
there
be
more
then
one
such
trees
,
and
in
divers
places
of
the
Island
,
of
which
it
s
observed
they
shine
most
sparklingly
and
vivid
in
the
darkest
night
,
and
especially
after
a
shower
of
Rain
.
Whether
this
may
have
any
affinity
with
the
burning
Rush
,
I
dare
not
determine
,
but
having
by
one
Rarity
prepared
the
curious
,
I
shall
less
surprise
by
another
,
which
is
a
Tree
or
shrub
bearing
animal
seeds
:
to
the
which
the
plants
called
sensitive
,
whereof
there
's
plenty
here
,
are
trifling
and
inconsiderable
.
For
these
seeds
have
an
internal
spring
of
motion
,
jumping
up
and
down
without
any
touch
like
the
usual
sensitive
Plants
,
to
make
them
contract
themselves
,
neither
from
applicating
or
contracting
dryness
do
they
take
their
Rise
,
and
then
have
done
,
as
several
seeds
will
often
spart
themselves
from
suchlike
Causes
.
But
our
far
stranger
seed
hath
more
then
one
motion
:
For
touch
you
each
and
you
will
perceive
a
pulse
(
besides
in
your
own
fingers
)
plainly
throbbing
in
the
hollow
seed
it self
:
And
yet
further
and
more
strange
,
lay
two
of
the
same
on
the
Table
,
they
will
skip
many
a
fair
jump
above
a
span
high
,
and
further
to
surprise
,
they
steer
their
motion
one
to
the
other
,
though
placed
at
distance
on
the
table
.
The
seeds
will
continue
those
frolicks
many
days
:
But
thendecline
in
their
vigor
,
till
they
leave
us
destitute
of
the
pleasure
they
first
afforded
:
The
seed
is
externally
convex
and
oblong
,
internally
concave
and
adapted
to
a
true
adjustment
with
four
other
seeds
in
one
common
inclosure
of
a
brown
Colour
light
and
hollow
within
,
where
(
for
I
opened
them
)
appeared
nothing
to
exercise
our
conjecture
about
;
only
matter
of
Fact
convinced
the
various
senses
of
its
extraordinary
appearances
:
The
which
being
so
great
,
I
am
glad
it
was
seen
by
a
multitude
,
and
at
diverse
times
,
and
more
eminently
to
confirm
the
certainty
by
the
highly
sagacious
and
most
just
observer
,
his
excellency
my
Lord
Vaughan
our
most
happy
Governour
,
who
ordered
his
Gardiner
to
cultivate
some
of
the
same
seeds
for
a
further
growth
,
which
being
at
St.
Jago
,
we
will
suppose
our
inquisitive
Traveller
returned
thither
.
And
since
he
hath
hitherto
seen
our
Savanna
Country
,
now
for
a
more
delightful
mixture
and
variety
sake
we
will
steer
a
course
of
another
nature
:
for
as
the
former
progress
was
with
the
extended
length
,
and
as
it
were
with
the
grain
of
the
Country
,
at
least
on
the
South
side
:
So
now
wee
'l
cross
and
run
athwart
to
the
North
side
of
our
more
narrow
Jamaica
,
following
as
much
as
may
be
the
natural
cut
through
the
Mountains
,
which
the
rapid
Rivers
and
violent
Rains
through
a
long
duration
of
time
,
hath
effected
more
powerful
then
Hannibals
Vinegar
through
the
Alpes
.
It
's
four
miles
from
St.
Jago
ere
we
need
take
the
advantage
of
this
way-preparing
River
Coure
,
and
then
we
chiefly
make
use
of
its
marginal
Cut
,
elaborated
by
many
hands
and
continual
Industry
,
preserved
a
tolerable
good
path
,
at
least
such
as
is
most
strangely
different
from
any
other
,
affecting
the
pensive
passenger
with
new
thoughts
from
the
unusual
novelties
presented
to
his
passing
eye
:
For
now
he
rides
at
the
bottom
or
neer
the
same
of
the
high
Mountains
split
a
sunder
to
wall
in
the
Passenger
on
both
sides
from
stragling
deviations
,
pleasantly
imprisoning
him
in
his
own
way
,
which
like
to
that
of
the
Stygian
Lake
can
nere
be
missed
:
And
here
it
is
reasonable
to
look
before
us
,
as
well
for
our
pleasure
as
preservation
,
although
we
can
be
but
short
sighted
,
being
soon
terminated
in
our
prospect
by
a
rocky
upright
Wall
exceeding
far
both
in
height
and
strength
,
that
of
China
or
any
other
whatsoever
artificial
one
.
For
here
Nature
her self
is
prodigal
in
the
number
and
bigness
of
her
rocky
Tablets
,
heaped
one
on
the
other
to
a
portentous
crowd
of
the
uprear'd
structure
,
as
if
the
Giants
of
old
had
here
begun
their
work
of
invading
the
Empyraeum
.
And
lest
the
horror
of
these
daring
Rocks
affright
too
much
by
their
threatning
Imminency
,
Mother
Nature
hath
kindly
mantled
them
with
a
green
vesture
of
delighting
Trees
strangely
ranging
one
over
the
other
,
as
if
the
superior
were
rooted
on
the
tops
of
the
inferior
,
propagating
various
lengths
of
(
as
it
were
)
Trees
to
a
portentous
height
,
and
least
such
continued
sights
should
glut
the
eye
,
the
bare
supporting
Wall
peeps
out
now
and
then
with
its
scraggy
aspects
,
to
render
the
scene
more
solemn
:
Especially
while
the
hoarse
murmuring
River
sets
the
Base
to
the
shrill
Choristers
of
the
wood
,
&
affects
the
Daughters
of
musick
as
well
as
the
enamored
eye
at
the
same
time
,
by
all
which
unusual
pleasure
we
beguile
our selves
of
our
way
till
it
brings
us
to
the
Elizian
plains
,
a
most
pleasant
Vale
opening
her
kind
Bosom
to
receive
us
from
the
passed
shades
into
the
more
open
Air
of
St.
Thomas
in
the
vale
or
sixteen
mile
walk
,
where
to
a
wonder
notwithstanding
its
surrounding
Mountains
and
great
ascending
Fogs
which
skreen
off
the
morning
Sun
some
hours
,
it
hath
hitherto
been
reputed
a
wholesom
and
healthy
place
,
greatly
plantedand
almost
crowded
with
the
greatest
settlements
;
but
steering
our
Northern
course
we
leave
this
vale
behind
us
,
and
ascending
successive
mountains
are
led
by
the
exalted
Ridges
forward
,
not
without
memorials
of
the
path
to
Heaven
:
Few
hours
are
spent
ere
we
descend
the
settled
skirts
of
the
North
side
of
our
Jamaica
Saddle
,
where
we
may
congratulate
our selves
returned
to
the
temperament
of
an
English
May
.
It
's
almost
past
credence
that
so
sinall
distance
should
afford
so
great
difference
of
heat
and
cold
:
Here
the
Air
is
most
keen
and
thin
,
shutting
up
the
too
open
Pores
to
a
better
husbandry
of
profuse
sweatings
,
calculated
more
agreeable
to
the
Meridian
of
the
South
side
,
where
such
sweatings
are
no
less
then
necessary
,
but
here
scarcely
convenient
.
Neither
herein
only
are
the
North
and
South
side
differenced
,
but
more
eminently
in
their
various
seasons
For
whereas
the
South
side
summer
or
most
direct
neighbourhood
of
the
Sun
brings
in
the
Rains
,
and
when
the
Sun
is
more
remote
in
its
Capricorn
progress
,
our
dry
times
are
generally
observed
,
't
is
quite
contrary
on
the
North
side
,
for
there
the
more
eminent
seasons
of
Rain
,
make
the
Winter
in
its
most
proper
time
,
and
leave
the
summer
like
that
of
the
English
to
be
more
dry
.
Hence
,
if
my
conjecture
fail
not
,
the
North
side
is
in
its
self
,
as
it
is
found
by
good
experience
to
be
,
most
proper
for
the
desirable
Cacaa
.
The
Rains
most
opportunely
drenching
the
luxuriant
Tree
to
its
great
satiety
and
overflowing
fruitfulness
,
which
rains
on
the
South
side
being
deficient
about
the
time
of
Cacaas
bearing
,
leave
the
succulent
Tree
too
dry
,
and
therefore
pining
for
want
of
its
desirable
fruit
,
as
if
the
voice
of
Nature
in
the
Cacaa
Tree
cryed
give
me
Children
or
else
I
dye
;
everything
is
beautiful
as
well
in
its
place
or
season
.
Wherefore
seeing
Nature
seems
to
adapt
the
North
side
to
this
Indian
Treasury
;
and
hath
already
well
stored
this
proper
place
through
planting
dilligence
,
with
a
hopeful
prospect
of
this
its
enriching
produce
,
it
were
too
great
a
neglect
to
omit
visiting
a
Cacaa
Walk
:
For
so
ground
orderly
planted
therewith
in
regular
walks
,
is
called
,
wherein
the
Cacaa
and
Plantain
Trees
are
orderly
and
successively
ranged
the
one
to
shelter
the
other
,
lest
the
preying
Sun
suck
up
too
much
of
the
moisture
naturally
benign
to
the
Cacaa
Tree
as
well
as
to
break
the
force
of
the
too
boisterous
winds
,
lest
such
should
chance
to
injure
the
delicate
Plant
.
These
attendant
Trees
called
Plantains
give
novelty
of
aspect
to
our
Northern
Stranger
,
no
Tree
whatsoever
in
the
cold
Countries
affording
so
large
and
so
broad
a
Leaf
,
the
which
copiously
lodge
the
enriching
dew
,
and
retails
it
to
its
neighbouring
Plant
,
sprinkling
the
pearly
drops
as
the
wind
moves
the
yielding
leaves
;
Neither
is
this
the
only
fruit
of
the
Guardian
Tree
,
for
it
is
loaded
with
a
weighty
bunch
of
clustering
Plantains
(
for
so
the
fruit
is
called
)
whereof
both
bread
and
drink
with
smallest
trouble
are
provided
,
not
only
for
the
labouring
Slaves
,
but
grateful
to
their
Masters
palate
:
A
food
far
exceeding
Potatoes
,
at
least
in
point
of
health
as
nothing
so
readily
breeding
worms
or
such
who
live
thereon
:
This
Fruit
before
its
immature
roughness
(
of
which
it
eminently
partakes
)
is
removed
by
the
sweetness
of
the
ripening
Sun
,
is
a
most
ready
astringent
in
our
ordinary
debilitating
Fluxes
.
But
the
service
of
these
Plantain
Trees
〈◇〉
least
in
our
Cacaa
Walk
advance
us
four
〈◇〉
five
paces
further
,
and
then
imploy
th●…
greedy
eye
no
longer
on
themselves
b●…
on
a
far
more
affecting
object
,
viz.
the
delightful
Cacaa
Tree
:
A
Tree
of
that
singular
beauty
as
to
gratify
the
marvelling
eye
of
each
beholder
,
for
bigness
not
exceeding
our
Cherry-trees
;
it
s
large
,
broad
oblong
leaf
,
falls
back
,
and
hangs
with
kind
of
native
fondness
to
its
productive
original
,
like
so
many
shields
to
defend
the
tender
Tree
from
the
descending
injuries
,
the
colour
of
the
leaf
is
solemn
and
grave
with
a
deep
verdure
.
Its
fruity
Jewel
is
most
admirably
set
,
studding
the
very
body
of
the
Tree
with
its
luxuriant
Treasure
,
enameling
with
yellow
and
red
,
not
only
the
verdant
Boughs
but
barky
substance
and
body
of
the
Tree
from
the
very
earth
upwards
,
each
cod
(
for
in
such
this
Treasury
is
crowded
)
Cabinets
about
thirty
two
Nuts
orderly
set
in
a
soft
Bed
of
sweet
slimy
pulp
,
to
preserve
as
well
as
nourish
the
tender
fruit
.
To
say
the
truth
at
once
,
the
whole
Tree
is
a
non
pareil
,
an
Indian
Treasury
:
For
the
very
Nuts
among
the
Indians
and
Spaniards
go
currant
as
lesser
money
,
even
there
whence
the
greatest
part
of
the
currant
Coyn
of
the
whole
world
is
brought
,
't
is
their
Riches
,
their
Food
,
their
Delicacy
,
and
all
in
one
.
Of
this
so
useful
,
so
profitable
commodity
,
the
North
side
of
this
Island
is
most
richly
stored
as
well
as
through
the
goodness
of
the
mould
,
&c.
very
fit
for
the
more
speedy
unlading
Sugar
Cane
,
which
by
sufficient
experience
is
found
here
not
inferior
to
the
best
,
besides
the
great
quantity
of
Fustick
;
the
Bay
Tree
or
spicy
Piemento
perfume
the
woods
with
profitable
sweets
,
to
which
our
Winter
Bark
or
West
Indian
Cinnamon
Tree
adds
its
help
to
embalm
the
Air
,
while
the
creeping
China
paves
our
footing
with
its
eminent
restorative
Roots
,
too
easy
at
hand
to
be
valued
to
their
intrinsick
worth
:
(
ex
pede
Herculem
)
from
the
little
yet
discovered
we
may
guess
at
the
more
unknown
Treasure
.
Its
Woods
,
Plants
,
Seeds
,
Fruits
,
Stones
requiring
more
ages
than
one
to
bring
them
to
light
,
it
may
suffice
at
least
for
my
first
attempts
to
have
presented
this
one
hudling
Cluster
of
our
first
more
obvious
commodities
.
A
more
retired
inquisition
,
when
the
desirable
Country
shall
be
my
chief
study
,
may
hereafter
(
God
willing
)
be
superadded
,
in
the
mean
while
I
have
thus
lightly
touched
at
the
nature
of
the
place
both
on
the
North
and
South
side
of
the
Island
of
Jamaica
;
There
remains
my
third
Hippocratical
head
,
and
there
under
to
speak
more
distinctly
of
the
water
of
this
place
.
CHAP.
3.
Of
the
Water
of
Jamaica
.
HOw
necessary
Water
is
to
life
,
and
how
differences
of
water
do
variously
affect
the
life
not
only
of
the
vegetative
,
but
of
the
breathing
world
,
though
readily
it
will
be
confessed
,
yet
oft
it
's
less
considered
than
the
improvement
of
such
an
object
may
well
require
at
our
hands
:
Especially
in
those
places
where
water
is
the
common
drink
of
the
most
,
as
well
as
the
most
proper
for
all
.
To
search
out
the
fountains
of
the
deep
,
and
enquire
after
the
original
Source
of
waters
may
seem
an
extravagancy
as
well
as
too
needless
a
Retrospect
;
yet
forasmuch
as
the
inquisitive
mind
is
never
satisfied
without
it
ascend
to
the
first
cause
of
things
,
and
even
the
first
as
such
intimates
a
principle
yet
prior
to
the
cause
,
I
presume
to
guess
at
the
principations
of
waters
,
and
thence
assign
them
one
of
the
first
appearing
causes
or
matter
of
all
visibles
,
and
therefore
not
to
be
neglected
in
this
our
Chap.
of
Water
,
relating
to
Health
,
or
the
interruption
thereof
by
Diseases
.
Without
presumption
I
may
take
Moses
for
my
best
guide
to
the
origination
of
things
,
especially
since
particularly
he
hath
written
there
,
Gen.
1.
For
he
not
only
as
enlightened
by
the
Candle
of
the
Lord
with
other
men
:
But
as
ascending
into
the
Mount
,
and
by
the
special
light
of
the
burning
Bush
,
peeping
neerest
into
the
thick
darkness
,
thence
knew
how
to
commence
the
generations
of
the
Heavens
and
the
Earth
;
for
darkness
was
first
on
the
face
of
the
Deep
:
Not
darkness
as
a
privation
of
light
,
because
it
was
first
but
darkness
as
a
fit
sheath
to
enshrine
thee
after
to
be
produced
light
:
Darkness
as
the
curdling
power
and
confining
Tabernacle
of
the
first
breath
,
or
going
forth
of
the
Almighty
:
Thus
he
makes
darkness
his
Pavilion
,
and
characterizeth
his
otherwise
unintilligible
Word
to
the
modes
and
measures
of
after
to
be
created
Beings
,
fitted
to
take
in
by
piece
meal
,
what
was
impossible
in
the
whole
to
be
apprehended
,
therefore
the
Spirit
of
God
is
said
to
move
first
on
the
Face
of
the
waters
:
The
Spirit
cannot
move
without
the
Word
,
nor
the
Word
without
Light
,
nor
the
Light
be
apprehensible
but
by
a
confinement
or
termination
which
is
darkness
on
the
face
of
the
Deep
,
or
on
the
face
of
the
waters
,
which
is
all
one
and
the
same
:
For
the
face
of
the
waters
,
viz.
the
external
term
thereof
,
being
nothing
but
darkness
,
was
ere
the
waters
were
brought
forth
,
for
the
Waters
being
creatures
were
made
by
his
word
,
and
his
first
word
was
Let
there
be
light
,
where
,
but
in
the
darkness
,
which
being
the
Horizon
,
the
confinement
,
the
vale
of
the
light
,
and
that
light
being
according
to
true
weight
and
measure
adjusted
to
its
covering
vest
,
make
the
first
pure
fluid
.
The
first
essentiated
waters
not
yet
contaminated
but
very
living
,
and
waters
of
life
natural
,
a
pure
Mirror
for
the
Almighty
to
see
,
and
by
seeing
to
bring
forth
his
eternal
Ideas
,
and
render
them
visible
in
a
World
of
creatural
Beings
.
Hence
all
our
knowledge
in
and
of
this
World
may
well
be
said
to
be
as
in
a
mirror
darkly
,
and
that
not
tropically
only
but
truly
and
naturally
,
for
the
nature
of
all
created
Beings
taking
their
Source
hence
,
viz.
from
the
originating
waters
,
all
we
see
is
truly
and
radically
in
each
thing
,
nay
all
that
becomes
communicative
any
wise
to
our
supply
,
first
expands
it self
towards
this
Fountain
head
:
All
seeds
are
reduced
into
a
watry
expansion
ere
they
multiply
,
all
Foods
become
dissolved
into
liquids
ere
they
nourish
,
and
the
external
sign
of
the
great
and
mystical
Renovation
descending
into
waters
,
the
significant
Sacrament
adjusting
our
Religion
to
the
principles
of
our
Nature
;
therefore
whoso
violates
the
one
to
engraft
the
other
,
and
destroys
the
man
to
make
a
Bigot
,
runs
counter
to
the
alwise
at
his
own
peril
.
God
begins
his
new
creation
neer
where
he
did
the
first
,
and
both
from
waters
,
though
different
products
flow
from
one
and
the
other
,
or
else
infinity
would
be
straitned
,
from
which
,
as
contradictory
,
nature
abhors
;
or
do
the
same
work
twice
which
would
tax
of
infirmity
,
or
want
of
power
or
wisdome
:
wherefore
almost
an
infinite
variety
must
necessarily
emerge
from
this
self
same
original
,
which
though
so
vastly
differing
,
yet
all
agree
in
water
,
which
water
were
it
equally
pure
,
all
equally
limpid
and
agreeable
,
there
would
be
no
need
I
should
assign
the
water
of
Jamaica
as
one
Topick
for
my
discourse
concerning
Health
and
Diseases
there
.
But
since
it
is
so
receptive
of
divers
Forms
and
mixtures
,
and
so
becomes
more
or
less
agreeable
to
humane
life
and
health
,
from
its
great
diversity
of
Allays
and
corruptions
,
my
duty
is
to
remark
the
good
,
and
and
characterize
the
less
good
,
or
directly
noxious
,
or
at
least
stimulate
others
to
do
it
better
.
The
most
general
allowed
Test
of
waters
is
their
lightness
,
of
which
the
best
partakes
most
:
Whereby
all
mineral
waters
,
though
never
so
limpid
are
first
to
be
excepted
against
,
at
least
in
the
way
of
nourishment
,
though
not
as
to
medicinal
effects
.
Sometimes
desirable
mountanous
places
,
such
as
Jamaica
,
hide
in
their
teeming
Bellies
store
of
the
subjects
of
the
mineral
Kingdome
,
and
therefore
the
waters
issuing
thence
are
first
to
be
distinguished
,
hence
the
first
settling
Spaniards
named
the
River
that
passes
by
the
Town
of
St.
Jago
Rio
de
Coure
,
or
the
Copper
River
,
being
it
is
tainted
with
issuings
forth
of
some
or
many
Copper
Mines
,
chiefly
discernable
in
the
time
of
Floods
and
Freshes
,
when
the
mountainous
Rain
wash
down
the
Creeks
and
Guts
,
in
the
otherwise
wholsome
Current
,
at
which
times
the
prudent
Spaniard
drank
not
thereof
,
nor
at
other
times
,
without
first
settling
the
same
in
Jars
,
whereby
the
mineral
Ocra
had
time
to
subside
and
separate
the
vomitive
virtue
from
their
drink
,
which
laudable
custome
continues
to
their
Successors
,
who
generally
take
up
the
next
days
water
in
the
precedent
evening
,
which
while
the
careless
neglect
,
they
oft
pay
for
it
to
their
sorrow
,
though
they
consider
less
the
cause
thereof
than
the
importance
requires
.
This
same
River
after
having
run
some
purging
miles
becomes
the
usual
drink
of
Port-Royal
,
for
the
most
part
more
wholsome
there
than
at
the
Town
of
St.
Jago
,
because
by
its
current
more
defaecated
from
its
mineral
Inmate
,
which
demonstration
of
weight
will
easily
evince
to
the
curious
,
not
but
that
even
this
water
brings
sometimes
its
taint
with
it
to
the
Port
,
through
the
discharge
of
the
many
salt
Springs
neer
Cabbage
Tree
bottome
,
and
the
neighbouring
places
,
of
which
my
curiosity
hath
prompted
me
to
taste
;
but
then
being
casked
up
(
for
so
our
water
is
conveyed
to
the
Point
)
and
standing
sometimes
in
its
new
Inclosure
,
ere
we
drink
thereof
,
give
's
time
to
the
subsiding
alien
:
The
care
remains
that
the
Cask
be
always
well
washed
when
the
supplies
of
water
are
required
in
the
same
Vessel
,
otherwise
the
mineral
Ocra
may
contaminate
the
latter
received
Tenent
,
continuing
the
alien
taint
till
it
be
imbibed
by
the
drinkers
,
who
unknowingly
all
on
a
suddain
fall
into
Fluxes
and
Gripes
,
especially
new
Comers
who
not
yet
used
thereto
are
much
affected
thereby
,
nay
the
country
planters
coming
rarely
to
the
Point
,
suffer
oft
the
like
from
the
same
cause
:
To
avoid
all
which
both
at
St.
Jago
and
the
Port
,
it
were
much
to
be
desired
that
both
one
and
the
other
would
supply
themselves
with
water
elsewhere
,
viz.
that
they
of
the
Town
would
be
at
the
trouble
as
the
wiser
Spaniards
were
to
fetch
their
water
from
the
Bridge
,
from
the
River
called
the
black
River
,
and
they
of
the
Point
from
the
Rock
(
a
place
so
termed
neer
the
Harbour
)
both
which
afford
signally
good
water
.
As
for
the
Well
waters
wheresoever
they
are
used
,
as
too
frequent
they
are
especially
in
Ligania
,
they
are
found
too
heavy
for
our
necessary
brisk
circulation
of
Blood
,
besides
their
remaining
grosser
parts
prove
oft
obstructive
inmates
,
administring
too
frequent
occasions
of
our
dry
Bellyach
and
Dropsies
.
Pond
water
as
either
arising
from
higher
Springs
or
containing
Rain
water
,
both
farther
concocted
of
the
Heavens
,
makes
a
more
wholsome
than
delightful
water
;
yet
such
as
is
most
fit
for
brewing
our
cold
drinks
(
as
they
call
them
)
with
being
most
susceptive
of
a
fermenting
power
to
work
and
thereby
render
them
more
wholsome
.
Providence
hath
plentifully
watered
this
Island
with
great
variety
of
copious
Rivers
,
besides
lesser
Springs
almost
every
where
to
be
found
,
but
more
in
the
mountanous
than
valy
Land
.
And
such
affording
more
wholsome
drink
by
how
much
the
higher
the
ascent
of
such
is
,
hence
though
we
mount
not
without
some
straining
difficulty
the
aspiring
heights
of
Hills
,
we
are
well
recompenced
by
the
excellency
of
the
water
,
usually
found
there
more
cleer
,
more
pure
,
and
far
cooler
,
truly
slacking
and
not
exasperating
,
as
some
waters
do
,
the
deceived
thirst
:
for
on
such
Eminences
the
water
is
usually
best
digested
and
separated
from
injurious
aliens
(
especially
there
no
mineral
Taints
are
blended
therewith
)
such
are
most
usually
met
with
in
their
descending
traces
,
not
in
the
first
ruptions
on
the
tops
of
mountains
:
for
thereto
mineral
waters
cannot
well
aspire
,
for
their
depressing
weight
hurries
such
to
their
more
proper
place
,
and
brings
them
to
the
mouths
of
the
lazy
,
who
not
taking
pains
for
the
best
must
be
contented
with
the
worser
.
Sed
quis
ascendet
in
montem
Domini
,
he
alone
is
secure
of
the
true
natural
waters
of
life
which
in
their
pure
vitality
promise
length
of
days
and
clarity
of
Spirits
.
It
's
more
than
ordinary
briskness
they
usually
shine
to
the
very
eye
with
,
besides
,
the
discerning
Palate
or
yet
the
more
intelligent
Stomach
quickly
discover
their
agreeableness
,
thus
as
we
ascend
to
the
fountain
of
all
blessings
,
we
neerer
partake
of
his
more
immediate
goodness
in
vital
gifts
,
which
are
mixed
more
and
more
the
lower
they
descend
:
Therefore
it
is
worth
while
to
receive
such
at
the
first
hand
on
the
mountainous
eminences
of
Nature
,
framed
as
it
were
for
the
contented
aspirer
,
who
there
still
satiates
himself
with
elemental
purity
,
and
thereby
hath
less
fear
of
jarring
discords
to
the
dissolution
of
his
Frame
.
As
Helmont
remarks
in
his
Chap.
of
the
Mountain
of
the
Lord
,
all
Nations
,
saith
he
,
inhabiting
the
mountains
are
of
an
hardier
body
and
of
a
more
vigorous
and
flowrishing
life
than
those
who
inhabit
pleasant
Fields
,
which
effects
do
manifest
their
cause
:
for
a
more
sweet
and
purer
Air
is
there
imbreathed
and
every
Gas
being
deprived
of
its
filth
returns
into
the
pure
matter
of
water
:
Further
,
it
is
in
such
mountains
are
found
the
highly
sublimed
Dews
plenteously
enriched
with
Heavens
Treasure
,
and
separated
from
terrene
clogs
to
afford
a
kind
of
elixirated
water
transcending
all
others
whatsoever
,
especially
for
those
whose
longer
durance
in
such
places
hath
adapted
them
for
so
pure
a
Drink
,
too
penetrating
for
grosser
Bodies
,
as
endangering
too
sudden
a
change
,
which
nature
will
never
brook
to
be
forced
to
at
once
,
but
is
easily
led
by
preparatory
steps
of
a
thin
Blood
and
rectified
Juices
:
't
is
then
our
Mountanist
may
drink
this
liquid
Manna
,
and
live
more
healthy
and
longer
than
others
elsewhere
.
Besides
the
ordinary
supplies
of
Rivers
,
Springs
,
Ponds
,
Wells
from
Heaven
it self
in
copious
Rains
,
and
refined
Dews
;
there
grow
large
With
s
,
for
so
they
are
called
,
most
frequent
in
the
most
dry
places
,
as
it
were
providentially
to
obviate
the
thirsty
,
which
being
cut
,
pour
out
a
cleer
well
tasted
and
wholsome
water
to
satiate
the
bewildred
Traveller
,
of
which
our
Hunters
serve
themselves
frequently
:
I
may
here
add
the
remarkable
Coker
Nut
Tree
,
a
Tree
well
provided
with
all
necessaries
of
life
,
as
for
Cloathing
,
Meat
and
Drink
,
and
Vessels
of
use
,
besides
it
affords
a
most
grateful
aspect
while
it
ascends
direct
and
high
,
wearing
its
tuft
of
palmy
Branches
aloft
,
whose
monthly
clusters
of
large
capacious
Nuts
,
at
their
due
successive
times
,
supply
a
pleasant
milky
water
both
for
the
slacking
of
thirst
and
good
nourishment
:
for
if
it
be
urged
by
the
Fire
,
it
gellies
into
a
natural
Custard
,
otherwise
it
is
a
cleer
agreeable
water
well
answering
the
Indications
of
an
hectick
Heat
,
cooling
,
moistning
,
and
sweetning
,
and
nourishing
,
at
the
same
time
,
of
which
notwithstanding
a
too
cool
Stomach
may
take
too
much
;
and
thereby
be
chilled
into
a
disadvantagious
weakness
.
But
such
water
as
that
of
the
Coker
Nut
being
more
appropriated
to
the
industrious
Planter
than
it
is
common
to
all
(
for
usus
est
communis
aquarum
)
we
need
take
no
further
notice
thereof
;
but
we
'll
conclude
Jamaica
to
be
plentifully
watered
,
and
that
with
great
choice
,
among
which
some
give
no
place
to
the
best
in
the
world
,
and
to
which
the
long
living
Jamaica
Man
must
necessarily
addict
himself
for
his
most
usual
drink
,
of
which
we
may
see
further
under
our
next
head
of
the
Customs
and
Manners
of
living
.
CHAP.
4.
Of
the
Customs
and
Manners
of
living
.
THe
consideration
of
the
Customs
and
Manners
of
living
,
is
no
way
an
alien
speculation
from
our
scope
of
desired
health
,
but
the
neglect
thereof
often
much
contributes
to
diverse
Intemperatures
,
undavisedly
drawn
on
ourselves
,
for
the
want
of
substituting
new
Indian
ones
in
the
place
of
our
proper
native
manners
and
usages
in
living
.
I
confess
it
is
deeply
natural
,
where
ere
we
are
,
to
adhere
to
our
earliest
implanted
inclinations
,
wherefore
though
we
change
our
place
we
seem
loth
to
change
our
ingeny
,
but
needs
,
though
with
less
reason
than
's
fit
,
we
transport
northern
chilly
propensities
,
and
customs
thereon
depending
,
into
the
southern
hot
Climes
,
and
most
improper
and
destructive
to
health
,
at
least
long
life
:
we
retain
our
ancient
English
humor
(
most
desirable
in
its
proper
place
)
as
to
eating
and
drinking
,
and
other
the
acts
of
Nature
no
way
to
be
neglected
or
perhaps
diminished
,
only
in
an
order
sutable
to
the
change
of
the
place
,
to
be
better
husbanded
for
the
vigor
of
Nature
and
prolonging
of
Life
.
The
quantity
,
times
,
and
quality
of
our
English
Drink
and
Food
,
ought
,
according
to
the
best
of
my
reason
,
to
be
wholly
changed
for
other
more
natural
and
agreeable
to
the
clime
and
circumstances
of
living
.
As
for
the
quantity
we
neither
ought
to
eat
so
much
or
so
little
as
may
well
agree
in
England
,
for
excess
in
either
cannot
so
suddain
threaten
life
there
as
here
,
for
Nature
is
not
so
yare
with
her
delinquents
in
the
cold
northern
Tracts
as
between
the
Tropicks
,
where
all
motions
being
necessarily
more
quick
,
the
punishment
of
all
Intemperances
afford
less
time
for
Repentance
:
the
quantity
therefore
ought
to
be
lesned
one
way
and
increased
another
,
i.e.
we
may
well
eat
more
at
more
times
and
less
at
each
,
where
good
supplies
administer
a
plenty
.
It
must
be
for
health
and
continuance
of
strength
to
eat
at
least
four
times
in
twenty
four
hours
,
viz.
Chocalata
at
six
in
the
morn
,
at
Ten
dine
more
sparingly
than
the
English
,
at
four
afternoon
repeat
Chocalata
,
between
seven
and
eight
a
plentiful
supper
may
be
best
admitted
;
to
drink
between
meals
may
not
be
forbidden
in
a
hot
Country
as
this
,
for
whoso
lists
may
properly
take
a
plentiful
Draught
of
water
,
as
it
is
usual
for
some
before
they
take
their
Chocalata
,
but
by
no
means
soon
after
,
as
strictly
prohibited
by
the
observing
Spaniard
:
However
at
other
times
a
large
Draught
of
the
pure
crystalline
naturally
well
concocted
Water
,
may
well
refresh
and
contribute
to
render
our
Bloods
thin
,
and
circulate
the
better
:
and
lest
such
at
sometimes
should
chill
the
Stomach
too
much
,
the
Spanish
custome
of
eating
candied
warm
Fruits
and
Roots
after
such
draughts
may
be
esteemed
reasonable
,
such
as
candied
Limes
,
Orenges
,
Ginger
,
Marmalade
of
Guavas
quiddinies
,
of
Citrons
,
to
be
taken
in
little
quantities
as
we
usually
do
Cheese
after
meat
for
concoction
.
When
the
Sun
declines
,
the
warm
Spirit
of
the
Grape
most
properly
may
be
admitted
,
and
that
to
a
natural
warmth
,
not
an
inebriating
Fire
,
to
whet
appetite
and
better
perform
the
digestion
of
the
greater
meal
,
as
well
as
to
fortify
against
the
nigh
moisture
of
the
Air
,
and
powers
of
the
neer
Moon
.
And
now
it
being
not
out
of
the
way
,
but
conspiring
to
the
great
design
of
health
and
life
,
we
may
well
remark
the
Wines
proper
and
improper
for
our
careful
Jamaica
Drinker
,
and
herein
we
may
consider
the
great
providence
and
bounty
of
the
All-wise
and
All-good
disposer
of
his
creation
.
For
as
there
is
no
place
so
conveniently
seated
for
the
quick
and
commodious
conveyance
of
Wines
to
the
western
World
,
as
the
Maderas
and
her
neighbours
:
So
neither
is
there
any
wine
so
well
adjusted
to
the
wants
and
profitable
refreshings
and
safety
of
the
Drinkers
,
as
such
Wines
are
,
they
being
as
it
were
a
medium
between
other
Wines
and
Brandy
,
not
so
hot
as
the
latter
,
nor
so
mild
as
the
former
,
but
of
a
good
warming
nature
against
the
daily
large
expence
by
heat
and
sweating
,
adapted
to
circulate
her
thick
blood
:
For
such
we
are
liable
to
here
,
sutable
to
the
brisk
motions
necessary
to
this
swelling
part
of
the
Globe
.
Besides
,
such
wines
afford
agood
pleasant
mixture
with
water
,
and
thereby
become
most
useful
here
,
where
water
is
our
most
natural
and
common
drink
.
Again
contrary
to
other
wines
,
which
are
best
preserved
to
the
pleasure
and
the
profit
of
the
Drinker
in
cold
places
and
cellars
,
these
as
it
were
complying
with
the
place
they
were
designed
for
,
preserve
themselves
though
in
a
warm
Repository
,
and
grow
sower
and
eager
in
a
more
cool
.
Having
therefore
so
good
and
agreeable
conditions
in
our
Madera
Wines
,
we
may
better
dispense
with
the
absence
of
French
Clarrets
and
white
Wines
,
as
also
the
too
heavy
(
as
usually
ordered
)
Canaries
and
Sacks
,
for
these
,
more
especially
the
balderdashed
Clarrets
,
the
covetous
Brewers
and
Corrupters
thereof
seldome
send
them
without
having
one
part
thereof
burnt
to
serve
the
funerals
of
those
they
have
killed
.
It
were
not
without
shew
of
Justice
that
such
who
first
exposed
them
to
the
publick
nusance
of
life
should
drink
most
of
such
themselves
,
whereof
if
they
dy
,
they
may
have
a
stake
driven
through
their
Corps
as
Felons
de
se
:
But
the
unrighteous
Mammon
accruing
from
such
Merchandize
will
make
them
better
friends
and
entail
the
danger
on
the
innocent
Purchaser
,
whom
as
I
ought
I
do
warn
thereof
,
wishing
him
to
drink
his
own
health
in
the
safe
Maderas
,
such
being
every
way
accommodated
to
cautious
Jamaica
Drinkers
.
But
lest
while
I
talk
of
the
Madera
Wines
with
a
feeling
gusto
,
I
may
seem
to
forget
my self
and
loose
my
way
,
I
l'e
return
more
directly
to
my
discourse
,
where
I
left
my
regulated
man
at
his
good
supper
,
to
supply
the
large
expences
of
the
Day
,
as
well
as
to
provide
carefully
for
the
night
,
which
ought
to
be
spent
not
without
circumspection
,
our
greatest
dangers
arising
thence
,
viz.
from
the
great
chilling
moistures
of
the
Moon
,
and
the
influence
of
the
other
man
alluring
Planet
felt
by
the
amorous
,
from
whence
the
due
moderation
of
Reason
ought
carefully
to
defend
the
Males
,
who
,
for
want
of
advertency
herein
and
other
things
,
dye
four
or
five
to
one
of
the
other
Sex
.
I
mean
the
virile
Males
to
the
sutable
Females
,
and
the
reason
is
not
very
obscure
,
for
whoso
spends
two
hundred
pound
in
one
place
,
as
oft
as
in
another
he
could
but
one
single
hundred
,
must
assoon
again
be
bankrupt
,
which
is
much
the
state
of
the
forementioned
case
:
wherefore
let
our
moderation
be
known
herein
by
prolonging
our
lives
through
alteration
of
customs
to
a
sutable
adjustment
of
Nature
and
Place
.
But
of
this
enough
;
to
please
therefore
,
let
me
return
to
my
Chocalata
,
wherewith
I
begin
the
orderly
and
properly
supplies
of
the
day
.
And
here
dame
Nature
smiles
me
thinks
as
it
were
shewing
her self
in
love
with
humanity
by
such
a
provision
both
for
the
individual
and
species
in
one
single
nourishment
:
Had
the
Poets
known
hereof
,
they
had
made
this
single
Food
serve
their
Deities
in
both
Capacities
of
Meat
and
Drink
,
for
such
it
,
is
being
moderately
hot
as
its
agreeable
bitterness
witnesses
,
and
refreshing
moist
as
its
cool
oyl
suggests
,
and
thereby
most
fitly
nourisheth
and
slacketh
thirst
at
the
same
time
.
If
to
any
Thirst
ensue
the
drinking
thereof
,
or
whereso
it
may
disagree
with
the
Stomach
,
as
sometimes
it
may
,
it
signifies
such
of
no
good
west
Indian
temper
,
at
least
at
present
;
or
that
the
place
doth
not
naturally
agree
with
such
an
one
:
For
asmuch
as
all
Natives
I
ere
observed
most
greedily
desire
it
from
their
infancy
,
and
if
ever
they
refuse
Chocalata
,
it
signifies
they
need
rectifying
their
State
.
Wherefore
it
is
not
only
a
Food
,
but
a
natural
test
of
Health
,
for
when
the
Stomach
hath
too
much
choler
,
as
to
quarrel
with
Chocalata
,
it
indicates
evacuation
thereof
necessary
and
expedient
,
or
some
other
provision
for
regulating
of
disordered
temper
,
but
luxury
is
too
prone
to
vitiate
the
gifts
of
Nature
by
corrupting
her
simplicity
,
for
a
better
provision
to
the
satisfying
of
lusts
,
which
as
entrenching
on
the
integrity
and
duration
of
life
,
I
ought
not
to
insinuate
but
casheir
the
high
aromatick
mixtures
and
perfumes
of
the
otherwise
much
better
Chocalata
,
such
burthening
the
Stomach
,
which
else
with
fresh
and
renewed
appetite
would
continually
grace
the
sincere
Chocalata
:
Egs
likewise
graduate
it
too
high
for
a
constant
usage
,
wherefore
while
I
recommend
a
daily
repetition
and
that
doubly
of
this
our
west
Indian
Ambrosian
Nectar
,
I
intend
the
simple
well
ground
and
adapted
Nut
and
water
,
with
so
little
Sugar
as
to
preserve
somewhat
of
the
natural
bitterness
of
the
Cacaa
,
which
is
most
grateful
to
the
Stomach
;
whoso
listeth
may
consult
Hernandes
,
P.
8.
and
find
there
three
sorts
,
and
chuse
which
pleaseth
him
best
:
The
ancient
Indians
contented
themselves
often
with
the
bare
Nut
in
their
travelling
,
eating
two
or
three
of
them
at
a
time
and
drinking
water
,
to
make
the
composition
more
natural
in
their
digesting
Stomachs
:
With
the
better
composition
,
yet
still
as
neer
nature
as
may
be
,
I
would
have
the
regular
living
Jamaica
man
institute
one
half
of
his
sustenance
,
it
being
not
only
very
easy
of
digestion
,
but
affording
solid
and
lasting
nourishment
against
the
devouring
heat
of
the
near
Sun
:
For
the
oily
parts
supply
with
genuine
moisture
his
otherwise
apt
to
be
too
much
parched
Body
,
rendring
the
muscular
Fibres
apt
to
motion
,
levening
the
Stomach
with
renovated
ferment
,
supplying
the
Bowels
with
defensive
armature
against
corroding
defluxions
,
as
well
as
making
the
same
slippery
for
the
advantage
of
their
peristaltick
motion
:
For
the
Kidney
I
find
nothing
more
genuine
than
Chocalata
,
moving
a
more
plentiful
Urine
,
and
also
administring
a
balsamick
quality
to
the
Ulcers
,
oft
incident
to
those
parts
,
provided
spices
,
&c.
be
omitted
.
To
particularise
all
the
useful
conveniences
of
this
single
fruit
,
would
require
more
paper
than
this
small
manual
can
admit
;
to
shew
what
convenient
and
nourishing
Food
(
in
time
when
it
shall
be
plenty
enough
)
it
might
administer
to
Armies
and
royal
Navies
,
would
swell
as
beyond
our
stint
.
What
use
the
hard
white
Butter
separated
from
the
Nut
,
what
pleasant
fermenting
Juice
the
washing
of
the
slimy
fruit
may
afford
,
to
what
great
uses
they
may
well
concur
,
I
must
curb
my self
in
full
relations
;
being
to
proceed
from
the
morning
proper
food
unto
the
ten
of
the
clock
Meal
,
wherein
I
would
change
the
times
of
eating
in
England
,
and
that
because
of
the
too
neer
heating
Sun
at
high
noon
more
inclining
to
a
Seasto
than
any
thing
else
:
Let
the
Table
be
therefore
spread
never
later
than
ten
of
the
Clock
,
where
first
the
delicious
well
concocted
Musmillion
most
temptingly
presents
,
both
the
oblong
and
white
one
as
well
as
the
more
round
and
red
one
,
as
also
the
water
Million
,
the
superlative
Pine
,
various
Orenges
and
Lemons
,
Citrons
,
Pomegranates
,
Cushewes
,
Grapes
,
Dates
,
maiden
Plantains
,
Bonanoes
,
Cherries
,
Tamarinds
,
Nasburies
,
sower
Sops
,
Pinguins
,
with
many
other
,
each
in
their
seasons
supplying
the
whole
summer
year
with
a
plentiful
first
service
,
proper
for
this
time
of
day
and
the
place
of
living
.
Next
good
Broths
,
with
Mutton
,
Goat
,
or
Fowls
,
well
cooled
with
Purslain
,
Lettuce
,
Sorrel
,
Papas
thickned
with
Potatoes
,
Yams
rendred
stomatick
with
our
red
Pepper
as
wholsome
as
the
east
Indian
,
serves
very
agreeable
both
to
nourish
and
moisten
,
or
else
Piloe
,
for
which
our
native
Rice
may
serve
,
as
a
food
easy
of
digestion
may
well
be
admitted
likewise
the
young
Ocra
an
agreeable
Food
as
well
for
the
species
as
individual
,
dressed
variously
according
to
pleasure
,
besides
the
Family
of
Legumina
,
of
which
there
are
more
then
thirty
sorts
,
relished
with
salted
Pork
,
which
Flesh
here
greatly
excels
,
or
powdered
Beef
,
rather
in
compliance
with
the
English
great
inclination
to
Flesh
than
otherwise
,
for
the
lighter
or
easiest
digested
food
is
always
most
proper
here
for
digestion
,
as
all
the
works
of
nature
here
are
and
ought
to
be
most
speedy
,
to
comply
with
the
universal
briskness
of
motions
betwixt
the
Tropicks
.
Wherefore
the
vast
variety
of
Fish
are
found
a
great
as
well
as
a
most
sutable
nutriment
,
and
the
Natives
though
descended
from
great
flesh
eating
Parents
prefer
a
Fish
diet
,
and
whatso
is
easily
convertible
to
humane
service
,
before
stubborn
flesh
,
(
for
such
all
flesh
is
comparatively
)
a
demonstration
,
what
the
nature
of
the
place
requires
,
and
therefore
to
be
complied
with
by
the
reasonable
observer
:
And
here
,
it
being
not
an
improper
place
,
let
me
recite
with
thankful
acknowledgment
to
divine
Bounty
the
delightful
wholsome
as
well
as
plentiful
store
of
nourishment
,
which
the
boundless
Ocean
,
as
well
as
many
retailing
Rivers
on
all
sides
pour
in
upon
us
,
in
which
recital
I
must
needs
give
the
first
place
,
for
more
reasons
than
one
,
to
the
Bountiful
Turtle
,
a
strange
as
well
as
useful
Creature
,
vastly
answering
necessity
in
living
through
its
quantity
of
convenient
Food
,
as
well
as
gratifying
the
curious
palate
with
extraordinary
delicacy
,
exceeding
that
of
marrow
and
fatness
in
any
other
Creature
I
know
of
,
this
flesh
of
Fish
unites
both
Sea
and
Land
in
one
,
it
partakes
of
neither
so
much
as
to
offend
the
Palate
,
and
wants
of
nothing
that
excels
in
either
,
the
Flesh
is
truly
solid
but
easy
of
digestion
,
like
Fish
in
the
last
,
but
as
flesh
in
the
first
,
neither
the
lean
nor
the
fat
of
a
fishy
taste
,
but
both
as
pleasant
as
nourishing
,
and
as
nourishing
as
pleasant
,
and
therefore
in
the
whole
a
complete
restaurative
food
:
as
it
is
a
shell
Fish
it
may
well
pretend
thereto
,
and
as
its
flesh
is
most
like
the
white
tender
veal
,
it
may
make
good
the
pretence
,
hence
its
broths
,
when
boyled
excels
whatsoever
,
transcending
the
very
Jellies
of
the
curious
:
when
the
Callapee
(
for
such
is
called
the
belly
part
)
is
baked
,
it
vies
with
Venison
,
and
lacks
only
scarcity
to
make
it
better
,
for
judgement
as
well
as
palate
will
extort
as
much
from
me
.
Judgement
,
I
mean
directed
from
the
nature
of
this
Creature
,
which
certainly
is
extraordinary
in
Generation
,
Formation
,
Life
,
and
Death
,
all
which
being
remarkable
,
I
must
not
omit
either
to
defend
my
judgement
.
As
for
the
generation
of
the
Turtle
,
it
's
almost
past
the
creed
of
any
to
allow
,
without
most
undeniable
sense
convince
:
for
the
amorous
embraces
of
the
Male
and
Female
Turtles
continue
not
Minutes
,
not
Hours
,
not
Daies
;
but
the
very
circuit
of
a
Moon
,
an
old
Aegyptian
year
compleat
,
their
coitions
,
wherein
they
live
on
seminal
expences
without
any
other
restaurative
than
water
,
is
that
,
which
would
bankrupt
the
creation
to
imitate
throughout
.
But
then
the
poor
prodigal
,
like
the
emblematick
figures
in
Fullers
holy
War
,
as
he
went
on
full
,
he
returns
empty
,
and
requires
eleven
months
recruit
to
visit
his
Uncle
,
while
the
she
plumps
with
the
swelling
of
her
impregnated
Ovary
,
and
being
richly
laden
seeks
the
proper
discharge
of
her
increasing
Treasury
,
mixing
it
,
like
that
of
natural
dust
Gold
with
the
warm
hatching
sand
,
which
puts
off
its
sterility
by
extraordinary
plentiful
brood
of
young
Turtle
,
who
by
strange
instinct
knowing
their
watery
mansion
,
hast
thither
,
from
their
now
unprofitable
nest
:
But
that
not
without
a
numerous
attendance
of
preying
Fowl
,
who
savouring
their
delicacy
,
endevour
to
intercept
them
in
their
passage
,
which
they
fail
not
to
do
of
some
,
while
the
other
escape
into
the
more
proper
Element
,
encreasing
the
stock
of
Turtle
for
the
more
constant
furnishing
the
table
of
the
deliciously
feasting
Jamaica
Man
,
where
I
must
not
yet
leave
the
Turtle
,
till
I
further
remark
his
neer
approximation
to
reason
,
as
well
as
his
prodigious
fulness
of
vital
energy
,
both
evidently
insinuated
by
the
signal
property
of
weeping
.
And
here
me
thinks
I
cannot
but
bear
a
part
with
the
mournful
Turtle
,
and
almost
cry
for
company
,
while
I
behold
her
lying
on
her
back
(
for
that
posture
is
their
prison
)
fetching
deep
melting
sighs
,
and
profusely
emitting
Tears
from
her
languishing
eyes
,
litterally
fulfilling
the
creation
groans
for
the
hoped
for
liberty
.
Neither
can
so
great
passions
appear
without
great
sense
,
which
certainly
this
creature
pertakes
of
at
a
prodigious
rate
,
and
truly
testifies
the
same
from
his
heart
,
for
even
that
hath
vital
motion
five
or
six
hours
after
its
separation
.
The
ignorant
,
to
make
it
more
strange
,
assign
the
Turtle
three
hearts
:
But
to
undeceive
,
it
's
one
Heart
with
two
large
Auricles
,
neither
yet
is
the
whole
Turtle
unsutable
to
his
heart
in
retaining
vital
motion
,
it
hath
even
grieved
me
to
see
the
Calapee
many
hours
after
its
separation
from
head
,
heart
,
and
other
parts
,
after
its
cutting
,
salting
,
and
peppering
,
sensibly
move
under
the
fiery
trial
of
the
Oven
.
My
pen
would
refuse
disclosing
this
necessary
cruelty
,
did
it
not
strangely
testify
the
great
vitality
of
this
creature
,
and
consequently
the
advantage
the
feeders
thereon
may
well
expect
from
converting
it
into
themselves
:
Much
more
might
be
said
concerning
this
nourishment
,
but
yet
the
large
shoal
of
various
Fish
require
some
place
in
our
paper
.
The
Manatee
or
sea
Cow
must
not
be
forgotten
,
though
she
more
seldome
visit
us
,
to
reminde
of
her
worth
,
yet
when
she
doth
she
brings
a
feast
with
her
as
well
as
a
good
medicine
for
the
afflicting
Stone
.
Our
English
name
of
Cow
doth
much
befit
,
for
her
nose
and
head
most
imitate
the
same
;
her
pasture
not
fish
,
but
grass
of
the
sea
or
banks
,
with
which
the
Bays
and
Creaks
being
well
supplied
,
draw
these
creatures
for
their
food
sake
to
be
taken
:
the
Manatee
hath
yet
somewhat
remarkable
,
for
she
doth
not
spawn
as
fish
nor
cast
forth
her
Egs
as
Turtle
,
but
calves
her
young
and
suckles
them
from
an
udder
with
milk
,
the
better
to
make
good
the
name
of
Cow
:
our
dairy
wives
are
not
yet
so
curious
to
experiment
their
Butter
,
and
I
fear
never
will
,
those
Cows
being
scarce
to
be
herded
.
The
Jew
fish
crowds
to
be
one
of
the
first
three
of
our
most
worthy
Fish
,
and
deserves
by
no
means
to
be
excluded
,
affording
a
most
firm
well
relished
flesh
throughout
his
whole
bulk
,
but
a
most
eminently
delicious
head
comparing
with
the
curious
Cods
;
his
fat
eyes
and
brains
exercise
the
palate
with
an
unusual
taste
of
a
most
singular
marrow
,
the
whole
skin
is
well
moistned
with
such
fat
,
and
renders
it
most
nourishing
and
restaurative
,
without
the
usual
hazard
of
surfeiting
entailed
thereon
:
It
never
affecting
the
stomach
fulsomely
,
but
disolves
into
spermatick
nourishment
readily
,
our
Botargo
Treasurer
.
The
choice
Mullet
brings
up
the
next
division
crowded
with
various
Snappers
,
Rock
fish
,
Stone
bass
,
Cavallies
,
Groopers
,
Jacks
,
Grunts
,
Porgoes
,
old
Wives
,
Tarpums
,
Spanish
Mackeril
,
Barrocoota
,
Gar
fish
,
Grash
fish
,
Mud
fish
,
Cat
fish
,
Silver
fish
,
Pilchers
,
Sprat
,
Drummers
,
Parret
fish
,
Dolphins
,
Place
,
Flounders
,
Bonetoes
,
Thornback
,
Stingraies
,
Murraies
,
Lobsters
,
Crawfish
,
Shrimps
,
sea
Crabs
,
Eels
,
&c.
with
many
others
not
yet
named
,
though
daily
baptized
in
their
own
Element
,
or
not
remembred
in
so
great
a
crowd
:
And
now
from
so
great
a
store
it
is
no
miracle
that
some
thousands
are
daily
fed
on
Port-Royal
especially
,
as
also
else
where
neer
the
margin
of
this
Island
throughout
.
And
moreover
,
which
ought
most
thankfully
to
be
remarked
,
as
the
Land
of
Jamaica
scarce
harbours
any
venomous
troublers
of
our
secure
living
,
as
the
main
Land
throughout
the
Indies
doth
,
so
neither
doth
our
neighbouring
Seas
or
Rivers
serve
us
with
any
poysoning
Fish
,
as
are
found
elsewhere
about
the
Bahama
Island
&
other
parts
,
where
its
frequent
to
be
strangely
affected
and
meerly
poisoned
by
eating
some
sort
of
fish
and
others
at
sometimes
:
Of
which
I
have
seen
two
Barmudians
strangely
and
hazardously
afflicted
,
but
recovered
by
taking
Orveitan
.
But
Jamaica
hath
no
fear
from
her
more
benign
fish
,
wherefore
we
may
boldly
serve
our selves
from
so
great
variety
;
the
care
remains
,
to
restrain
the
appetite
,
better
to
preserve
it
quick
and
throughly
digesting
,
whereby
the
Stomach
may
greedily
crave
the
afternoon
Chocalata
,
and
so
easily
imploying
nature
to
a
gradual
full
supply
,
chiefly
to
be
compleated
at
the
greater
meal
about
seven
of
the
Clock
,
where
our
Muttons
,
Veals
,
Lambs
,
Kids
,
variously
ordered
,
may
satiate
our
strongest
dint
of
appetite
,
whereto
adding
our
dunghil
Fowl
at
choice
,
and
wild
Fowl
,
such
as
Ducks
of
diverse
kinds
,
Teal
,
Plover
,
Snipes
,
Pigeons
of
various
sorts
,
Turtle
Doves
,
ground
Doves
,
Parrats
,
Parreketoes
,
clucking
Hens
,
Guinny
Hens
,
Curlews
,
and
if
the
Roman
luxury
were
on
foot
,
the
Flemmingos
Tongues
,
all
which
may
sufficiently
replenish
and
gratify
our
supping
Jamaica
Man
,
who
,
if
at
any
time
,
may
now
take
liberty
to
satiate
nature
but
never
over
burthen
her
,
but
so
that
the
daily
and
nights
discharge
may
be
well
supplied
without
intrenching
upon
the
main
stock
,
which
ought
carefully
to
be
handled
,
from
one
day
to
the
other
,
and
improved
rather
than
lessened
,
so
that
he
may
without
damage
sometimes
shift
his
thick
blood
by
emissions
,
to
the
bettering
of
the
whole
mass
,
and
fundamentally
securing
life
and
health
.
For
it
is
plain
matter
of
fact
,
that
they
to
whom
such
shiftings
of
the
Tyrian
dye
Juice
is
natural
,
even
they
live-longest
in
Jamaica
and
freest
from
interruptions
of
their
health
by
intemperatures
and
diseases
;
unto
the
consideration
of
which
it
is
now
time
to
descend
in
our
next
Chapter
.
CHAP.
5.
Of
the
Intemperatures
and
Diseases
AS
for
Diseases
usually
found
heret
,
hey
are
far
short
of
the
long
Beadrowl
which
infest
our
native
Country
:
No
small
Pox
or
very
rarely
,
saving
sometimes
brought
from
Guinny
by
Negroes
,
terrify
or
remark
us
;
no
Scurvy
that
almost
universal
contagion
of
our
native
Country
is
got
here
,
or
continued
if
brought
;
no
depopulating
Plague
that
ere
I
have
heard
of
in
the
West
Indies
;
Consumptions
nothing
so
frequent
,
and
when
,
never
so
piningly
tedious
.
As
for
Venereal
Affects
their
symptoms
are
all
lesned
,
and
their
discharge
more
easy
far
than
in
colder
climes
:
The
chief
danger
lying
in
the
too
often
neglect
,
and
slighting
the
small
Enemy
,
from
whence
the
wise
know
how
to
take
heed
;
the
affrighting
Stone
is
a
great
stranger
here
,
forasmuch
as
hopped
Beer
and
French
Wines
are
so
likewise
;
the
Green
Sickness
and
accumulated
evils
flowing
thence
,
the
benign
female
moon
in
her
direct
approximation
rescues
that
whole
sex
remarkably
from
,
as
well
as
assists
and
facilitates
births
:
So
that
scarcely
is
there
room
left
for
the
old
cry
(
Lucina
fer
opem
)
Births
proving
as
brisk
as
all
other
Produces
in
the
Indies
do
.
But
why
should
I
thus
multiply
our
happy
negation
or
absences
of
afflicting
evils
,
but
the
better
to
excite
the
thankful
acknowledgement
of
Divine
Goodness
in
such
deliverances
,
and
that
with
so
much
the
more
courage
and
contentedness
we
may
sustain
the
maladies
incident
to
us
here
when
infflicted
on
us
:
for
it
is
never
to
be
thought
that
humane
frailty
may
be
excluded
from
any
place
since
the
loss
of
Paradise
,
and
it
is
proverbially
rediculous
to
dream
of
that
of
the
Fools
:
Jamaica
therefore
as
part
of
the
Indies
hath
its
endemical
evils
,
and
of
such
we
are
here
to
consider
as
well
as
of
the
general
frailty
of
humane
life
,
whereby
our
Houses
of
Clay
,
where
ere
they
are
seated
,
daily
moulder
into
the
dust
,
administring
consideration
to
the
prudence
of
the
pensive
man
,
and
scarcely
to
be
declined
by
any
such
:
Especially
since
the
Ancients
have
well
calculated
the
contemplation
of
death
to
be
the
beginning
of
wisdome
.
For
no
one
can
rightly
dole
away
his
time
or
supply
it
with
actions
agreeable
to
wisdome
,
but
whoso
reckons
upon
his
small
duration
;
neither
can
any
one
,
who
hath
rightly
calculated
,
be
surprized
with
the
terror
of
his
exit
:
Let
's
therefore
that
we
may
be
prepared
for
the
worst
,
consider
the
number
of
our
Enemies
,
their
Nature
,
their
manner
of
assault
,
with
the
reasons
of
all
,
in
order
to
obviate
or
prevent
,
or
else
cure
and
relieve
from
,
or
lastly
manfully
to
comply
with
the
necessity
of
Fate
when
nothing
else
shall
remain
.
As
for
the
number
of
morbifick
affections
usually
and
chiefly
infesting
Jamaica
,
they
are
but
few
,
and
may
well
be
reduced
to
the
heads
following
,
of
which
distinctly
though
with
brevity
sutable
to
each
ones
apprehension
and
easy
provision
,
it
being
my
design
not
to
multiply
things
far
sought
and
dear
bought
,
but
to
serve
our selves
as
far
as
possible
with
easy
and
ready
Remedies
and
those
few
,
in
imitation
of
my
most
wise
and
most
honest
Master
Hippocrates
,
not
complying
with
the
corruption
of
his
degenerated
successors
,
who
have
sacrificed
the
honour
of
the
noble
science
to
base
lucre
,
and
have
accordingly
succeeded
.
The
first
indisposition
that
usually
meets
the
new
Comer
,
is
a
Diarrhaea
or
Flux
,
a
friendly
rather
than
injurious
motion
of
Nature
,
caused
either
by
a
new
sort
of
Drink
&
Diet
,
which
falls
out
in
most
places
more
or
less
,
the
which
ceaseth
without
prejudice
or
any
other
remedy
than
a
little
time
;
or
else
the
same
may
arise
from
rejoycing
intemperance
,
too
often
welcoming
the
new
arrivers
,
and
may
be
accompanied
with
an
ebullition
of
the
fermented
Juices
boyling
over
to
a
convenient
discharge
of
nature
,
the
which
by
due
abstinence
may
likewise
cease
:
but
if
the
same
chance
to
stir
up
excrementitious
accomplices
and
blend
them
with
the
blood
,
it
may
well
hurry
the
whole
into
a
chafing
fret
,
marching
the
blood
into
the
outrage
of
a
febrifick
Rant
,
if
not
discharged
by
the
Crisis
of
a
plentiful
sweat
,
which
is
the
usual
prevention
as
well
as
the
natural
termination
of
distempers
proper
to
the
warm
place
,
and
hitherto
nature
is
the
sole
Physician
and
ever
afterwards
the
truest
Indicator
to
the
sagacious
,
what
ought
to
be
done
:
but
while
she
labours
sometimes
in
vain
,
sometimes
in
an
excited
rage
,
she
is
gently
to
be
reduced
and
assisted
in
her
first
regular
motion
by
the
artificial
attendant
,
thus
if
the
Flux
continue
,
it
indicates
somewhat
to
be
discharged
as
well
as
nature
to
be
quieted
and
hushed
into
a
repose
,
lest
she
spend
her
strength
in
vain
and
then
expire
for
want
of
the
same
,
which
sometimes
happen
:
Let
therefore
the
Patient
to
answer
the
first
intention
,
take
a
sutable
quantity
of
Manna
(
for
Manna
is
the
most
natural
,
most
agreeable
purge
here
of
any
)
dissolve
of
the
same
℥
jss
or
℥
ij
,
in
a
pint
of
Posset
drink
or
other
vehicle
;
after
discharge
thereby
,
at
night
let
him
take
fifteen
grains
of
torrefied
Rhubarb
in
a
poached
Egg
,
repeat
the
like
Rhubarb
the
next
morning
and
as
much
at
night
in
a
Bolus
of
Diascordium
,
or
if
need
be
,
before
the
same
inject
a
Clyster
of
broth
and
Diascordium
,
to
the
intention
of
the
observer
;
if
heat
encrease
by
this
method
,
as
sometimes
it
may
happen
,
it
indicates
bleeding
necessary
,
and
the
blood
will
prove
very
thick
,
and
always
and
in
all
cases
plentifully
to
be
withdrawn
;
forasmuch
as
the
Patient
is
less
fainted
thereby
,
the
blood
afterwards
moving
more
briskly
and
giving
less
pressure
to
the
Chest
.
If
so
be
the
first
two
intentions
,
viz.
the
discharge
of
peccant
matter
and
quiet
of
enraged
nature
are
not
properly
and
timely
conciliated
,
further
progress
of
the
Enemy
requires
further
intentions
of
the
Physician
;
for
nature
struggles
at
length
unto
blood
,
and
here
the
intentions
may
be
quite
contrary
,
directed
from
quite
contrary
causes
,
but
both
meet
if
well
managed
,
at
the
same
end
:
Thus
two
in
a
circle
though
they
turn
back
to
back
and
walk
one
from
the
other
,
may
meet
face
to
face
at
the
same
point
,
the
Dysentery
or
bloody
Flux
(
for
thereof
we
are
now
to
treat
)
may
proceed
either
from
a
colliquation
of
humours
,
where
all
of
them
,
through
great
heat
either
of
mind
extreamly
agitating
or
of
the
body
resolving
through
extraordinary
ferments
,
become
extravagantly
thin
and
eager
,
bouncing
through
the
tender
restraint
of
the
vessels
into
an
open
flood
;
or
else
the
same
may
be
effected
through
a
sluggish
thickness
of
blood
,
whereby
being
too
gross
for
our
quick
circulation
,
and
forced
by
the
sure
intending
motion
,
it
breaks
the
due
restraint
of
the
vessels
,
and
floods
out
by
indirect
waies
,
so
much
as
by
great
loss
to
threaten
danger
,
from
both
we
may
have
the
bloody
Flux
:
Which
ought
to
be
cured
by
contrary
means
,
viz.
by
reducing
the
blood
to
a
due
thickness
in
the
first
case
and
by
rendring
it
more
thin
in
the
second
.
Whoso
daringly
or
ignorantly
runs
through
thick
and
thin
at
the
same
rate
,
using
means
to
one
or
the
other
alike
,
must
necessarily
run
a
notorious
risk
,
or
else
hath
more
luck
than
good
cunning
.
As
for
the
Case
wherein
the
blood
is
too
thin
and
eager
,
I
shall
need
keep
no
Crowd
of
Remedies
to
confuse
the
chooser
,
but
prescribe
what
nature
freely
offers
in
Jamaica
,
and
that
is
China
Root
,
whereof
being
somewhat
dryed
and
then
grated
into
powder
separated
in
a
Searce
,
let
him
take
a
scruple
,
or
as
much
as
may
ly
on
the
point
of
a
broad
knife
twice
,
for
a
Dose
,
let
the
same
be
taken
in
bed
,
and
repeat
the
same
if
need
be
every
six
hours
:
And
the
blood
and
Juices
thereby
sweetned
cease
from
their
indirect
irruptions
.
In
the
other
case
where
the
blood
is
thick
let
the
Patient
bleed
and
drink
copiously
of
Ptisan
or
Barly
Water
,
till
the
symptoms
cease
by
such
a
dilating
course
,
and
if
the
blood
being
thinned
chance
to
be
rendred
sharp
,
and
effect
the
Dysentery
from
a
new
cause
,
as
sometimes
it
may
be
:
Then
take
of
China
as
before
.
To
the
which
I
shall
add
no
more
nor
design
any
further
,
till
I
shall
observe
this
fail
.
The
white
Flux
as
also
the
vain
irritations
of
Nature
called
the
needy
,
whereto
oft
provocations
urge
and
give
considerable
disturbances
,
they
are
conciliated
by
the
same
Remedy
;
and
what
is
signably
remarkable
,
no
inconvenience
of
weakness
or
heat
ensues
such
a
stoppage
,
but
sensibly
strength
springs
thence
as
from
a
most
proper
restaurative
,
wherefore
we
may
well
pass
from
our
Chapter
of
Fluxes
to
the
next
of
Fevers
.
CHAP.
6.
Of
the
Fevers
in
Jamaica
.
A
Fever
being
the
general
door
through
which
most
in
all
places
take
their
exit
of
this
world
,
and
the
difference
of
Fevers
affording
a
great
variety
thereof
,
hath
imployed
in
all
ages
and
places
different
attempts
of
Remedy
,
for
so
universal
a
grievance
,
or
at
least
of
discourse
towards
so
desirable
an
end
.
That
I
may
not
be
wanting
to
common
custome
,
or
more
especially
in
any
good
wishes
and
endeavours
to
obviate
so
common
an
Enemy
,
I
'll
subjoin
the
best
of
my
thoughts
with
my
successes
and
observations
as
well
of
the
nature
as
cure
of
those
conflagrations
in
humane
Body
,
called
Fevers
.
A
Fever
is
a
word
of
a
Roman
extract
derived
from
the
same
Root
as
cause
of
its
denomination
,
with
the
moneth
styled
February
,
wherein
the
Ancients
using
their
expurgatory
fires
for
expiating
the
lapsed
,
as
well
as
for
a
further
preparation
for
the
new
years
future
benefit
,
both
in
form
and
intention
design
the
same
for
the
publick
Weal
,
that
Nature
in
each
individual
intends
for
humane
preservation
by
the
conflagration
in
humane
body
termed
Fevers
:
The
genus
of
which
affects
common
to
each
species
or
kind
of
Fevers
,
is
a
non-natural
heat
,
wherein
all
agree
,
of
which
therefore
somewhat
ought
to
be
said
.
By
non-natural
is
meant
something
necessary
to
the
preservation
of
nature
in
her
delinquent
condition
,
though
extraneous
thereto
and
not
of
the
nature
thereof
,
and
therefore
called
non-natural
.
Thus
the
Air
,
Eating
and
Drinking
,
Evacuations
and
Retentions
,
Labour
and
Rest
,
the
Passions
of
the
mind
and
Propagation
of
the
species
are
called
commonly
the
six
non-naturals
:
Though
congenial
to
and
flowing
from
nature
yet
being
extraneous
from
the
physical
Being
of
a
man
(
for
a
man
is
none
of
those
)
they
have
hitherto
been
allowed
the
term
of
non-naturals
:
Thus
a
Fever
is
a
heat
non-natural
,
though
it
be
nothing
else
than
an
heating
strugling
endeavour
of
nature
her self
to
remove
some
grievance
:
Yet
as
this
heat
is
more
than
nature
requires
for
her
daily
management
of
her
functions
of
life
,
such
heat
may
be
termed
non-natural
:
it
is
not
contranatural
,
though
nature
thereby
is
sometimes
overthrown
and
dissolved
,
nor
yet
preternatural
,
for
it
is
not
beside
but
with
the
intention
of
nature
,
nor
yet
natural
,
because
nature
in
her
integrity
needs
it
not
,
but
therefore
non-natural
,
a
Fever
is
a
non-natural
heat
.
Heat
seems
the
active
principle
of
the
Universe
,
from
which
both
particular
and
general
motions
are
begun
,
or
at
least
continued
.
The
World
is
quickned
by
the
central
heat
of
the
Sun
,
and
the
whole
jollily
dance
about
their
warming
Fire
,
to
the
solemn
natural
praises
of
the
great
Recidenciary
,
life
beams
it self
thence
:
For
in
him
we
live
,
move
and
have
our
being
;
the
continuance
of
his
Efflux
maintains
us
in
life
,
our
Calidum
nativum
,
or
sacred
Vestal
Fire
being
fed
thereby
daily
,
and
sometimes
is
surfeited
thereof
by
an
inflaming
disproportion
,
whereby
our
temperament
not
only
ad
Pondus
,
but
that
ad
Justitiam
is
fractured
into
morbifick
Affects
.
Thus
nature
is
enraged
often
by
our
abode
too
long
in
the
Sun
,
and
excites
our
Ephemeris
,
or
the
Fever
of
a
daies
time
:
For
which
there
's
no
need
of
a
Cure
,
the
very
nature
of
such
a
Fever
terminating
it self
,
if
we
substract
the
Patient
from
the
inflammatory
cause
.
The
first
heat
of
nature
in
humane
frame
preparatory
to
the
continuation
of
all
her
depending
motions
,
is
the
digestive
heat
for
chylification
in
the
Stomach
,
from
the
corruption
or
exasperating
of
which
either
from
the
sower
ferments
,
or
too
much
of
the
overflowing
Gall
,
most
Fevers
are
either
continued
or
begun
.
Hence
it
hath
been
a
common
usage
as
well
as
successful
to
accost
our
Fevers
at
first
with
Emericks
or
Vomits
,
either
sometimes
to
remove
the
sole
cause
of
the
feverish
Intemperature
(
and
the
effect
likewise
causeth
this
sole
Remedy
)
or
else
timely
to
substract
occasional
succours
of
additional
heat
,
which
though
begun
elsewhere
would
much
be
aggravated
by
vitiating
Juices
brought
or
found
in
this
first
elaboratory
of
decocting
nature
.
Therefore
such
evacuation
by
vomiting
never
ought
to
be
neglected
by
the
careful
attender
,
provided
such
be
duly
timed
and
proportionated
both
to
the
circumstances
within
and
without
,
which
being
material
may
crowd
themselves
into
our
present
remarks
.
As
first
where
eminent
signs
of
a
Plethora
or
great
fulness
of
blood
exhibit
themselves
,
then
these
cleansings
by
vomitings
must
give
the
first
place
to
evacuation
by
blood
letting
,
lest
the
full
vessels
being
too
much
urged
by
the
contranatural
motion
of
the
Stomach
in
vomiting
,
suffocate
at
once
;
or
else
may
be
forced
to
an
eruption
in
the
more
tender
and
fine
parts
,
such
as
the
Eyes
,
Lungs
,
&c.
laying
the
unhappy
foundation
for
an
Empyeron
in
the
first
,
or
divers
lasting
,
weaknesses
in
the
latter
.
Wherefore
evacuation
by
blood
letting
ought
in
such
cases
to
preceed
these
from
Emeticks
.
Moreover
the
sex
is
to
be
considered
,
the
Female
not
wanting
so
much
the
evacuations
,
by
bleeding
especially
,
nor
that
by
vomiting
so
generally
,
both
which
are
almost
necessary
to
the
other
sex
,
under
the
first
irregular
ferment
,
or
non-natural
heat
in
the
Stomach
,
nature
providing
better
for
the
one
than
the
other
Sex
by
her
great
difcharges
of
turgent
humours
:
besides
the
great
commotions
caused
from
wind
in
Emeticks
or
opening
of
a
Vein
,
may
in
the
Female
prevent
or
corrupt
natures
own
intentions
,
and
raise
the
Devil
of
vapours
not
so
soon
laid
again
.
Wherefore
advertency
is
to
be
had
,
and
that
more
cautious
,
concerning
the
more
tender
Sex
sutable
to
their
Nature
,
Time
,
Age
and
other
circumstances
.
And
now
having
thus
added
the
necessary
cautions
not
to
be
forgotten
in
our
most
general
evacuations
,
we
may
more
securely
proceed
thereto
,
and
so
much
the
rather
,
because
malignity
,
of
which
there
's
great
noise
and
solicitude
in
other
parts
of
the
World
,
hath
no
place
here
originally
at
least
in
Fevers
,
but
sometimes
added
thereunto
by
the
management
of
the
attendant
or
Patient
,
who
for
want
of
discharge
proper
and
timely
of
turgent
humours
;
but
exasperating
such
by
an
inflammatory
usage
,
they
may
become
little
less
,
if
not
somewhat
malignant
.
But
our
Air
in
Jamaica
(
of
which
oft
refreshed
the
Patient
ought
partake
)
is
our
general
external
preservative
from
pestilential
and
malignant
Fevers
,
wherefore
I
insist
on
the
two
general
Remedies
of
bleeding
and
vomiting
,
as
the
most
proper
for
our
Jamaica
Practicer
,
and
most
safe
if
duly
timed
.
I
know
it
hath
been
commonly
received
that
about
eight
years
since
when
the
victorious
Fleet
returned
from
the
signal
Panama
expedition
,
that
then
they
brought
with
them
an
high
if
not
pestilential
Fever
,
of
which
many
dyed
throughout
the
Country
:
But
this
being
a
forreign
distemper
brought
from
abroad
,
the
causes
of
which
I
could
not
so
well
judge
,
I
am
not
as
yet
forced
from
my
opinion
thereby
,
but
conclude
Jamaica
more
happy
than
to
be
annoyed
therewith
directly
and
originally
,
I
confess
if
our
Patient
be
not
timely
and
sufficiently
bled
,
and
death
ensue
,
spots
from
the
thick
blood
stagnating
appear
:
but
that
not
from
a
malignant
cause
but
fulness
,
for
bleeding
and
cooling
well
timed
,
and
thinning
medicaments
prove
succesful
;
for
the
symptoms
of
malignity
,
such
as
great
oppressions
at
heart
,
Fainting
,
cold
Sweats
,
&c.
are
here
acted
from
the
usual
thickness
of
the
Blood
,
for
the
blood
being
thick
and
when
by
a
feverish
ferment
whipped
about
with
a
brisk
motion
sutable
to
the
moving
causes
,
the
thickned
Juices
not
without
difficulty
pass
the
many
straits
of
the
Body
,
and
sometimes
stagnating
by
a
plaging
force
of
the
actuated
blood
suddenly
kill
,
whereas
when
blood
is
duly
withdrawn
ere
the
ferment
rise
too
high
,
and
is
so
managed
till
it
cease
again
,
the
symptoms
of
malignity
either
not
appear
or
else
are
soon
removed
,
relief
always
ensuing
such
evacuation
if
rightly
timed
:
wherefore
if
the
Practitioner
be
not
ignorantly
malignant
there
's
no
cause
of
terror
in
our
Jamaica
Fevers
:
But
the
two
imitating
evacuations
being
established
,
we
may
descend
to
the
particulars
of
our
non-natural
heat
,
and
begin
from
the
intemperature
in
the
first
decoction
of
nature
in
the
Stomach
,
which
seeing
it
quickly
draws
its
neighbours
into
association
,
the
fermentation
is
easily
propagated
further
,
or
else
soon
ceaseth
here
by
the
sole
Remedy
of
a
Vomit
;
but
if
not
,
this
first
evacuation
sets
us
but
the
further
in
our
direct
way
of
obviating
a
greater
Enemy
:
therefore
scarce
ever
with
safety
ought
it
to
be
neglected
or
retarded
.
It
's
usual
that
the
too
sower
ferment
of
the
Stomach
vellicates
and
thereby
contracts
that
part
,
so
that
the
neighbouring
assage
of
the
Gall
called
the
Coleduct
is
moved
upwards
likewise
,
and
from
such
motion
the
ductile
Gall
follows
till
it
ascend
the
Stomach
,
from
whence
the
former
heat
is
aggravated
and
gives
a
sickness
in
that
part
,
irritations
to
vomit
,
and
pains
in
the
head
.
Wherefore
the
former
method
of
cure
continues
proper
:
however
one
emetick
is
not
sometimes
sufficient
to
discharge
the
Cystis
fellea
,
the
nest
of
this
flowing
ferment
;
but
such
filling
again
,
and
overflowing
as
before
,
renew
the
feverish
heat
,
hence
most
reasonably
our
usual
Fevers
are
intermittent
.
Of
the
which
since
our
discourse
is
now
in
their
chief
seat
,
and
such
Fevers
are
the
most
frequent
Enemies
that
annoy
us
,
I
must
more
particularly
insist
thereon
,
and
shew
that
Jamaica
is
as
kind
in
a
sufficient
Remedy
,
as
liable
to
this
frequent
intemperature
.
Five
or
six
of
our
Fevers
are
of
this
kind
and
commonly
called
the
every
other
daies
Fever
and
Ague
,
which
oftentimes
is
interrupted
by
medicaments
or
Methods
,
but
if
let
alone
,
the
management
of
nature
proves
no
other
than
a
safe
Tertian
,
to
the
which
the
Natives
are
safely
liable
,
it
rarely
killing
any
of
them
without
the
help
of
an
irregular
management
.
The
great
frequencies
of
these
Agues
may
have
two
causes
,
the
one
the
great
quantity
of
Choler
abounding
here
,
the
other
a
stop
of
the
usual
necessary
discharge
of
such
fermenting
humour
.
The
Choler
abounds
between
the
Tropicks
is
but
reasonable
as
well
as
matter
of
fast
for
the
inflaming
Sun
must
needs
kind
it
s
like
in
its
neerest
subjects
,
and
propaga●…
from
the
great
fountain
of
heat
the
like
inhumane
Body
:
of
which
the
Gall
as
central
receiver
in
the
lower
Belly
,
ebs
and
flows
according
to
the
communications
of
the
supreme
dispenser
of
heat
and
motion
.
F●…
the
Gall
is
not
an
excrement
but
a
nob●…
fermenting
extract
calculated
by
natu●…
for
the
first
motions
towards
a
superior
life
in
the
delineations
of
the
foetus
first
,
and
therein
becomes
though
the
lowest
,
yet
the
first
tendency
to
humane
life
,
which
must
deign
to
have
the
same
with
the
plants
,
and
inferior
Beings
,
ere
it
ascend
to
a
more
perfected
life
consummated
in
the
intelligent
and
rational
creature
,
which
though
it
towrs
so
high
at
length
,
yet
hath
but
the
small
beginning
of
a
fermentative
motion
eminently
seated
in
the
Center
of
the
overshadowing
and
preparing
Liver
,
if
not
of
the
lower
orb
of
the
Belly
:
whereof
the
Navel
being
the
Pole
,
guides
us
directly
to
this
first
central
fermenting
heat
,
treasured
in
the
Cystis
fellea
where
the
yolked
fire
derived
from
the
maternal
Stock
by
the
umbilical
vessel
kitchins
her self
for
the
service
of
the
whole
new
to
be
raised
structure
of
the
anon
to
be
hatched
foetus
.
From
the
which
Choler
seeing
evident
necessary
fermentations
have
their
beginnings
,
we
shall
likewise
observe
that
the
non-natural
heat
of
a
Tertian
springs
thence
likewise
,
and
our
eyes
must
witness
hereto
,
while
we
see
the
bilious
ejections
which
do
naturally
arise
or
reasonably
are
enforced
by
vomitings
,
under
such
affects
;
which
when
but
removed
or
contemperated
,
the
severish
heat
and
bilious
fermentations
cease
,
wherefore
herein
lies
the
proper
cure
of
those
Tertians
or
the
every
other
daies
Ague
or
Fever
.
To
compleat
which
and
render
the
returns
of
the
fit
more
reasonable
and
apparent
,
we
must
add
the
constipation
of
the
skin
or
the
shutting
the
Pores
caused
either
from
external
sudden
cold
,
or
internal
rage
of
allarmed
Nature
,
who
while
assembled
relieves
inward
,
leaving
the
outgard
of
the
porous
skin
more
shut
because
more
cold
,
and
less
of
the
retiring
heat
remaining
there
.
Thus
the
usual
ports
of
the
skin
denying
passage
to
the
constant
profuse
discharge
in
those
hot
Countries
,
absolutely
necessary
,
by
the
habit
of
the
Body
;
the
same
condense
and
thence
become
sower
,
then
chill
the
extream
parts
,
and
cause
the
shaking
or
cold
fit
,
enough
to
awaken
nature
to
a
relief
and
cause
whatso
follows
in
the
hot
combate
or
strugle
in
the
casting
forth
the
disturbing
forreigner
,
wherein
the
inflaming
ferment
of
choler
having
its
chief
part
to
act
,
exasperates
the
heat
too
high
,
till
it
threaten
the
conflagration
of
the
whole
and
the
attending
symptoms
necessary
thereto
,
in
which
rage
to
add
good
inflaming
Cordials
,
is
to
make
nature
desperate
and
thereby
sometimes
to
work
extraordinary
for
her
relief
,
but
more
often
becomes
a
sacrifice
to
the
mistake
and
folly
of
the
flattering
administer
,
who
comforts
himself
and
the
paying
friends
of
the
deceased
,
that
he
had
the
richest
Cordials
imaginable
:
thus
men
pay
for
their
mischiefs
and
love
to
have
it
so
be
,
because
they
know
no
better
.
Whereas
nature
will
never
be
forced
but
led
,
and
her
truest
Secretary
and
neer
Counseller
,
the
great
Hippocrates
,
who
saved
more
lives
than
any
one
ere
since
,
knew
nothing
of
these
inflammatory
Medicaments
.
The
corruption
of
simplicity
and
confused
ignorance
hath
raised
these
Spirits
since
to
carry
the
afflicted
more
speedily
in
fiery
Chariots
,
God
knows
where
:
for
my
part
I
never
add
coals
to
the
fire
,
but
remove
the
fewel
,
and
calm
nature
to
a
compose
and
regular
discharge
of
the
morbifick
matter
,
without
straining
her
or
running
unnecessary
risks
.
For
my
great
Master
tells
me
,
Nature
is
the
curer
of
all
her
diseases
,
the
Physitian
is
but
the
observing
Minister
to
suggest
her
necessaries
and
remove
impediments
,
the
which
now
remains
,
and
that
therein
I
manifest
the
same
simplicity
that
nature
delights
in
,
and
thereby
is
relieved
,
as
whoso
tries
will
find
the
benefit
of
easie
relief
and
safety
,
in
the
attempt
thereto
complying
with
the
three
happy
adverbs
of
the
divine
Hippocrates
,
viz.
that
the
Physician
ought
to
cure
quickly
,
safely
,
and
pleasantly
;
without
demurrs
,
to
magnifie
the
cure
and
inflame
the
Reckonings
;
without
happy-be-lucky
ventures
,
where
mans
life
lies
at
pawn
;
or
torturing
nauseousness
,
to
add
affliction
to
the
afflicted
.
Wherefore
since
the
intention
of
our
present
Fever
,
and
it
may
be
of
most
others
,
is
the
discharge
of
the
first
turgent
monitor
from
the
Stomach
,
and
adjacent
parts
by
vomiting
as
is
said
before
and
the
contemperating
of
the
incited
or
enraged
non-natural
Heat
;
let
the
Patient
upon
the
discovery
of
the
assaulting
Enemy
watch
a
Pacate
,
and
timely
three
hours
before
his
Fit
take
either
of
the
vomiting
Wine
,
which
is
no
other
than
Crocus
Metallorum
powdered
(
the
quantity
whereof
matters
little
)
suppose
half
an
ounce
more
or
less
in
one
quart
of
Wine
,
set
the
same
in
a
Skillet
or
Pot
of
warm
water
,
wherein
let
it
stand
two
hours
,
then
remove
the
same
infusion
and
keep
for
use
,
pouring
off
the
same
cleer
when
occasion
offers
,
whereof
one
ounce
,
or
half
as
much
more
may
serve
for
a
Dose
,
or
if
this
easie
Remedy
be
wanting
(
which
ought
not
to
be
in
a
Plantation
)
let
him
take
from
five
to
nine
of
our
vomitive
Nuts
,
which
agree
well
in
all
flegmatick
temperaments
,
or
of
our
Sea
Onions
whereof
is
plenty
here
,
prepared
by
Vinegar
for
the
use
above
.
By
the
which
cleansing
the
Guts
and
Stomach
,
ere
the
access
of
the
feverish
assault
,
a
fit
season
is
prepared
for
our
most
general
of
a
vegetable
(
if
not
of
all
others
)
sudorifick
or
febrifuge
Sweater
,
which
the
benign
Jamaica
affords
most
plentifully
and
ready
at
hand
,
viz.
China
Root
,
take
and
grate
the
same
when
first
dry
,
searce
the
fine
powder
thereof
,
and
thereof
take
about
℥
j
,
or
the
quantity
that
two
points
of
a
broad
knife
will
take
up
,
there
's
no
prejudice
as
ere
I
found
in
the
access
of
so
benign
a
simple
compose
in
Bed
to
a
swear
,
which
soon
without
exasperating
heat
or
force
ensues
,
and
if
need
be
more
plentiful
to
discharge
by
sweating
,
repeat
the
like
three
hours
after
,
adding
for
a
better
supply
of
inoffensive
and
agreeable
moisture
of
the
Decoction
,
for
which
of
the
same
Root
may
be
taken
about
℥
iij
,
sliced
into
two
quarts
of
water
being
boyled
as
we
usually
do
Tea
.
To
afford
after
half
an
hours
decoction
an
agreeable
Tincture
of
of
the
said
China
,
the
which
when
poured
on
Sugar
to
a
grateful
sweetness
,
or
without
that
sweet
addition
,
makes
a
most
ready
and
proper
drink
for
the
thirsting
Sweater
,
whereof
the
Patient
may
drink
most
freely
to
discharge
more
plentifully
and
without
faintness
by
sweating
,
and
at
any
other
times
if
he
fear
by
previous
symptoms
a
returning
Fit
,
let
him
always
at
such
notices
betake
to
his
Bed
,
and
take
of
the
powder
as
before
with
the
same
drink
,
and
by
Gods
usual
help
I
have
hitherto
seen
and
felt
the
desired
successes
.
Wherefore
there
needs
no
further
care
for
elaborated
Medicaments
and
Methods
,
Frustra
fit
per
plura
quod
fieri
potest
per
pauciora
,
neither
need
I
add
the
rational
where
matter
of
fact
approves
its
self
:
only
to
satisfie
the
inquirer
,
I
must
say
our
Root
sweetens
as
I
suppose
the
enraged
ferment
either
of
the
Stomach
or
Gall
:
Thence
Nature
being
pacate
easily
flings
out
by
sweat
the
disposed
morbifick
matter
,
sets
open
the
dores
for
the
fugitives
,
and
thereby
answers
the
true
intentions
in
feverish
ebullitions
,
which
being
come
to
an
happy
end
of
designing
Nature
,
cease
by
so
simple
so
easie
a
Remedy
,
thus
the
greater
half
of
our
Patients
in
Jamaica
may
be
provided
for
without
trouble
,
cost
or
nauseousness
.
And
moreover
this
happy
Remedy
answers
not
only
the
Indications
of
a
Tertian
,
but
of
a
continued
,
nay
of
the
most
obstinate
quartane
Fever
also
.
But
I
need
not
distinguish
of
Fevers
or
at
least
pursue
such
distinctions
with
distinct
Cures
,
for
though
I
have
not
experienced
as
yet
in
Quartans
as
much
as
in
Tertians
,
nor
ever
may
;
yet
so
much
as
I
have
,
which
hath
been
in
some
and
in
all
I
have
met
with
since
my
happy
usage
of
China
,
as
above
,
I
have
found
the
safe
discharge
both
of
Continued
and
Quartans
by
the
same
Simple
:
therefore
I
shall
conclude
though
empirically
yet
beneficially
for
the
Publick
,
for
the
which
I
write
,
and
not
further
multiply
under
this
Head
,
but
refer
the
users
to
the
abovesaid
,
who
may
be
content
with
no
further
trouble
.
For
to
confess
the
truth
where
ere
the
Practicer
heaps
a
multiplicity
of
Remedies
,
it
declares
his
own
suspicion
of
the
desired
effect
,
and
ignorance
what
will
answer
his
intention
,
or
insufficiency
in
what
he
uses
or
else
a
mercenary
compliance
with
custom
.
Wherefore
as
Nature
is
the
infallible
curer
of
every
distemper
,
and
she
by
how
much
the
more
simple
,
the
less
must
be
opposite
and
querrelsome
:
Whatso
of
Remedy
comes
neerest
to
nature
must
needs
be
most
proper
and
less
liable
to
hazards
(
and
it
is
no
little
vertue
among
the
crowd
of
Practicioners
to
do
no
hurt
)
therefore
most
natural
remedies
seem
first
to
be
desired
as
most
safe
,
most
pleasant
and
benign
,
such
as
our
agreeable
China
,
so
then
we
need
not
wonder
,
this
Root
among
the
wise
Chineses
,
from
whence
it
took
its
name
,
hath
been
in
great
esteem
and
valued
at
a
good
price
,
though
when
it
's
transported
thence
it
scarce
answers
its
so
great
fame
;
for
to
make
it
the
better
transportable
,
they
bereave
it
much
of
its
virtue
,
and
serve
us
in
Europe
with
little
better
than
rotten
wood
.
Whence
of
late
its
price
hath
sunk
with
its
demand
,
whereas
in
Jamaica
this
happy
Root
being
repleat
with
its
salutiferous
Tincture
,
which
gives
its
weight
and
intrinsick
worth
,
outdoes
its
common
fame
and
any
vegetable
that
ere
I
have
met
with
,
nay
what
the
cracking
Chymist
brags
of
his
Elixir
,
this
while
in
its
vigour
,
truly
performs
.
But
whether
in
the
northern
Climes
it
may
answer
what
it
performs
in
its
native
place
,
where
the
Pores
are
openly
disposed
to
sweats
,
I
cannot
assert
,
but
judge
it
worth
probation
,
and
wish
its
success
there
as
I
have
found
it
here
.
CHAP.
7.
Of
the
Dropsie
called
the
Country
Disease
.
I
having
after
my
manner
dispatched
the
discourse
and
cure
of
the
Fevers
in
Jamaica
,
come
to
the
next
ensuing
epidemick
,
called
the
Dropsie
or
Country
Disease
,
to
which
many
Servants
and
neglected
persons
especially
are
obnoxious
,
and
for
want
of
timely
assistances
come
short
home
,
for
their
sakes
therefore
as
well
as
their
masters
,
I
shall
omit
nothing
healingly
to
obviate
so
common
an
enemy
,
rendring
it
both
easie
and
cheap
through
the
overflowing
bounty
of
the
great
healer
of
us
all
,
who
hath
given
a
balm
for
every
Sore
,
and
that
not
to
be
far
sought
and
dear
bought
,
but
neer
at
hand
,
were
our
eyes
opened
like
Hagars
to
see
the
thirsted
for
Remedy
.
A
Dropsie
is
a
disease
hath
made
a
great
noise
in
the
contending
parties
,
an
argument
of
its
being
less
known
,
nay
Helmont
is
so
bold
as
to
tax
the
whole
Schools
with
the
ignorance
thereof
,
and
although
he
was
happy
in
a
Remedy
to
cure
the
same
,
which
is
the
the
true
end
of
the
knowledge
of
a
Disease
;
yet
with
his
good
leave
,
he
himself
might
perhaps
run
into
as
unlike
conjectures
about
the
causes
as
those
he
severely
reproves
.
The
Schools
have
assigned
three
sorts
of
Dropsies
,
viz.
an
Anasarca
,
Ascitis
and
the
Tympany
.
The
first
is
water
betwixt
the
skin
and
that
generally
throughout
the
Body
and
neer
the
same
with
a
Leuco-Plegmatia
,
the
second
named
Ascitis
being
the
most
proper
Dropsie
as
appearing
in
Belly
and
Legs
,
the
third
is
called
Tympany
from
the
great
Tension
of
the
skin
like
to
a
Drum
,
the
most
rare
though
the
most
cruel
and
afflictive
,
all
which
seem
little
less
than
distinction
of
degrees
of
one
and
the
same
disease
,
or
at
least
I
will
take
leave
to
suppose
them
so
,
having
reason
therefore
in
my
cure
thereof
.
Helmont
will
by
no
means
allow
the
Schools
to
be
just
in
taking
the
Liver
as
the
chief
part
male
affected
in
these
distempers
,
and
indeed
not
without
great
shew
of
good
reason
,
for
I
thought
with
my self
,
saies
he
,
to
what
end
hath
there
been
Anatomy
in
the
World
for
two
thousand
years
,
if
there
be
not
in
this
day
a
more
succesful
cure
of
the
Dropsie
than
in
times
past
,
for
wherefore
are
we
the
Butchers
of
dead
Carcases
,
if
we
do
not
learn
thereby
the
errors
of
the
Antient
.
The
same
Author
therefore
having
inspected
the
many
Carcases
of
dropsical
persons
,
of
whom
he
makes
distinct
mention
,
asserts
the
Livers
of
them
all
all
no
way
vitiated
,
and
therefore
concludes
the
Liver
faultless
in
dropsical
Affects
,
of
which
I
am
further
satisfied
by
the
nature
of
the
Cure
of
such
distempers
,
of
which
anon
:
However
I
can
neither
allow
the
opinion
of
the
more
happy
Helmont
concerning
his
hard
word
Latex
,
and
the
wrothful
Governour
thereof
,
the
Kidneys
,
whence
in
short
he
derives
the
cause
of
a
Dropsie
,
the
which
for
want
of
my
well
understanding
I
betake
my self
to
a
more
evident
description
thereof
agreeable
to
its
frequency
in
the
hottest
Indies
,
premising
the
usual
times
of
our
Dropsies
to
be
after
Fluxes
,
Fevers
and
other
disturbances
,
whereby
the
discharge
through
the
habit
of
the
body
is
lesned
and
interrupted
,
hence
what
s
usually
carried
off
by
sweating
and
a
more
silent
daily
breathing
through
the
whole
skin
,
rebounds
inwards
thence
condense
into
an
ichorous
Water
,
thence
aggravates
more
and
more
the
first
cause
through
encreased
weaknesses
and
hindrances
of
the
necessary
transpiration
,
the
which
according
to
the
Statica
Medicina
is
demonstrated
to
be
very
considerable
,
it
being
some
pounds
weight
.
And
when
that
in
part
or
in
whole
shall
be
retained
,
some
time
,
such
as
the
Dropsies
usually
take
to
come
to
their
height
,
may
well
accumulate
the
greatest
quantities
of
Water
treasured
up
for
the
destruction
of
the
Patient
,
that
ere
we
may
have
seen
or
heard
of
,
not
but
that
such
stagnating
Waters
in
time
may
work
further
alterations
likewise
on
the
subjected
parts
and
Viscera
,
the
which
then
to
see
effected
,
may
afford
no
wonder
,
nor
yet
insinuate
the
reason
of
the
first
Waters
from
the
weakness
of
the
Liver
,
Reins
,
&c.
as
usually
is
taught
and
received
for
a
truth
,
but
rather
from
a
more
evident
cause
,
viz.
the
constipation
of
the
porous
Skin
impeding
transpirations
and
more
copious
sweatings
,
according
whereto
I
institute
the
reason
of
the
Cure
of
Dropsies
,
which
matter
of
fact
hath
evinced
to
me
from
bare
external
unctions
,
although
from
greater
security
to
the
cure
,
I
add
or
rather
premise
a
Vomit
of
Mercurius
vitae
or
of
our
physick
Nuts
,
but
oft
cure
without
and
perhaps
as
well
,
the
unction
sufficiently
answering
the
intention
of
this
Disease
of
the
Dropsie
.
There
grows
almost
every
where
in
moist
and
boggish
places
,
a
large
and
remarkable
plant
called
generally
the
dumb
Cane
,
and
that
not
improperly
.
For
it
similates
in
its
large
and
high
joynted
Stalk
that
of
a
Sugar
Cane
,
and
scarce
of
it self
without
its
leaf
by
the
eye
to
be
distinguished
there
from
,
though
it
gives
a
deeper
verdure
than
usually
the
sweet
Cane
doth
,
and
besides
the
leaf
of
this
is
much
other
than
the
flag
of
the
Sugar
Cane
,
most
representing
a
water
Plantain
leaf
though
much
longer
.
The
Epithet
of
dumb
is
remarkably
added
thereto
,
for
as
much
as
whoso
toucheth
it
with
his
Tongue
becomes
dumb
and
unable
to
speak
for
two
or
three
hours
:
But
then
without
any
prejudice
the
part
returns
to
its
former
use
and
volubility
.
Therefore
it
appears
to
be
no
poyson
,
however
I
administer
it
not
inwardly
as
yet
,
but
content
my self
with
the
sufficient
outward
application
in
the
manner
following
.
I
take
of
the
juicy
Cane
,
and
beat
it
in
a
mortar
into
a
kind
of
a
Past
,
then
add
thereto
a
double
quantity
of
Hogs
Grease
or
rather
Turtle
Fat
or
Snakes
fat
,
the
which
having
agitated
strongly
together
,
I
suffer
it
to
rest
some
daies
,
then
beat
it
well
again
and
keep
for
use
.
Observing
that
the
longer
it
be
kept
it
better
answers
our
intention
.
But
then
it
must
be
heated
in
the
Mortar
ever
and
anon
,
and
well
beaten
,
lest
it
vivify
into
worms
,
further
to
prevent
which
,
as
also
to
render
the
Oyntment
more
fine
,
safe
and
agreeable
:
Take
of
the
Mass
beaten
in
the
fats
as
before
and
well
heated
;
then
strein
the
same
through
a
course
strong
Towel
forcibly
,
which
boil
up
to
due
consistency
and
keep
for
use
,
which
is
thus
.
Take
of
this
Ointment
and
chafe
it
warm
into
the
swollen
parts
,
and
if
need
be
apply
the
former
gross
Unguent
or
mixture
by
way
of
a
Cataplasm
to
the
Scrotum
,
which
part
usually
bears
a
great
share
of
the
Disease
.
Such
effect
hath
this
Oyntment
on
the
Patient
as
to
discharge
the
watery
Tumour
through
the
skin
,
which
though
Helmont
would
fain
have
carried
another
way
;
yet
seems
better
,
if
possible
which
he
questions
,
through
the
habit
of
the
Body
:
Such
a
like
discharge
the
Herb
Verbene
,
of
which
great
store
is
to
be
found
in
Jamaica
as
well
as
elsewhere
,
effecteth
on
the
stagnating
blood
in
the
Pleurify
.
For
apply
a
Cataplasm
of
that
Plant
warm
to
the
side
affected
and
it
relieves
from
that
grievance
through
a
discharge
by
the
skin
,
of
the
afflicting
blood
;
the
remarks
whereof
appear
on
the
Cataplasm
when
removed
,
wherefore
when
Nature
can
and
doth
discharge
the
neerest
way
,
what
need
we
go
further
about
.
The
reason
why
and
how
this
dumb
Cane
affects
the
Tongue
,
may
be
the
same
for
its
desired
way
of
discharging
by
the
Pores
to
the
curing
of
the
Dropsie
,
for
that
which
renders
the
Tongue
as
beforesaid
upon
the
touch
of
the
dumb
Cane
,
is
its
power
of
drawing
such
plenty
of
moisture
into
the
porous
Parts
as
to
strut
the
vessels
,
whereby
the
whole
tongue
is
rendred
immoveable
,
till
gradually
such
crowded
moisture
be
discharged
,
which
done
,
the
Tongue
returns
to
its
former
state
without
injury
thereto
.
Likewise
this
same
Cane
effecteth
the
like
on
the
swollen
parts
,
whereto
the
Ointment
is
applyed
by
an
easie
and
kind
discharge
of
the
swelling
Ichor
,
and
at
the
same
time
opening
the
Ports
for
the
prevention
of
a
further
accumulation
or
return
of
the
Disease
,
which
I
make
from
the
cure
to
be
originaly
but
a
cutaneous
disease
,
arising
from
the
constipation
of
the
skin
,
which
prohibiting
due
transpiration
,
thereby
the
swelling
is
formed
and
continued
in
the
cutaneous
parts
and
neighbourhood
thereof
,
especially
those
that
are
depending
,
as
the
belly
Scrotum
and
the
Legs
,
which
parts
may
,
well
be
weakned
by
want
of
due
exercise
in
daily
transpirations
.
And
therefore
though
the
discharged
matter
be
removed
,
and
thereby
for
a
time
the
disease
in
its
appearance
vanish
,
yet
to
confirm
the
same
and
render
it
a
continual
cure
,
it
may
be
necessary
,
especially
in
persons
more
elderly
to
use
warm
Baths
made
of
the
aforesaid
dumb
Cane
decocted
,
into
the
which
it
may
be
agreeable
to
descend
an
Evening
before
bed
time
,
and
there
to
continue
not
to
faintness
or
sweating
but
a
due
warmth
,
after
which
frications
may
have
their
proper
use
and
great
benefit
.
Further
it
may
be
convenient
to
change
the
first
Bath
for
another
,
wherein
Savanns
Weed
or
Spiknard
,
as
some
call
the
same
,
being
decocted
make
a
fragrant
and
balsamick
Bath
to
strengthen
the
cutaneous
Fibres
,
and
restore
their
true
tone
for
their
better
service
of
the
offices
of
nature
,
especially
the
necessarily
daily
plentiful
transpirations
which
are
absolutely
necessary
to
health
in
Jamaica
and
such
like
places
.
CHAP.
8.
Of
Worms
.
FRom
the
great
moisture
of
the
Air
,
before
suggested
,
conjoyned
with
its
quickning
animating
heat
,
it
's
no
wonder
to
observe
a
frequent
generation
of
Worms
,
either
in
the
Stomach
and
Guts
most
usually
or
in
other
parts
,
oftentimes
to
the
great
interruption
of
Health
by
various
annoying
symptoms
,
chiefly
and
with
most
hazard
accosting
the
Infant
,
as
the
moistest
state
,
as
also
the
more
grown
among
the
Female
Sex
,
or
the
debilitated
among
the
Males
far
oftner
than
is
suspected
;
from
whence
irregular
Fevers
and
Loosness
,
Convulsions
,
dejections
of
Appetite
,
Nauseousness
,
Vomitings
,
&c.
usually
ensue
.
Wherefore
I
scruple
not
,
though
among
my
few
heads
of
disaffections
,
to
assign
a
particular
Chapter
thereto
.
Active
Nature
being
never
at
rest
is
at
all
moments
and
in
all
things
hatching
of
life
,
though
variously
more
or
less
perfect
according
to
the
various
occurrences
of
Matter
,
Motion
,
and
seminal
Dispositions
.
Every
creature
living
whether
Animal
or
Vegetable
,
have
their
lesser
and
different
troops
of
Worms
,
Mites
,
Flies
,
and
other
products
arising
from
the
heat
and
corrupting
seminal
Particles
.
Neither
is
Man
freed
from
such
offensive
nusances
,
but
often
lowred
to
the
very
dust
from
such
little
intestine
Enemies
:
especially
the
weaker
state
of
man
,
Infancy
or
childhood
,
whose
ferment
or
degestive
heat
being
not
sufficiently
master
of
their
great
moisture
,
suffer
such
like
generations
to
the
hazard
of
the
harbouring
structure
.
This
evil
of
Worms
is
universal
throughout
all
places
and
climes
more
or
less
,
but
more
especially
to
be
remarked
and
savingly
obviated
in
all
hot
and
moist
places
,
such
as
Jamaica
,
where
from
their
Diet
and
Water
as
well
as
the
place
Worms
are
found
most
frequent
and
injurious
.
As
for
the
Diet
,
Bread
being
not
so
frequent
especially
in
remoter
places
of
the
Island
,
for
there
most
supply
themselves
with
sweet
Potatoes
,
and
a
fruity
kind
of
bread
,
which
gives
sufficient
matter
to
this
intruding
Vermine
,
and
our
water
being
commonly
haunted
with
Muskeetoes
,
a
small
sort
of
fly
which
prodigally
sprinkle
their
Egs
every
where
,
though
scarcely
perceptible
,
yet
in
a
weak
Stomach
may
well
be
hatched
into
offensive
small
Stomach
Worms
,
and
act
the
tragical
symptoms
thereto
.
Wherefore
it
seems
reasonable
if
not
necessary
,
to
provide
for
and
fortifie
against
those
inbred
disturbers
of
our
more
perfect
health
:
And
when
by
usual
symptoms
such
may
be
suspected
,
we
ought
most
speedily
to
labour
there
casting
forth
by
proper
Remedies
,
and
such
almost
all
bitter
things
are
found
to
be
as
well
as
those
which
partake
of
the
irradiations
of
Mercury
or
Quicksilver
.
From
which
two
Topicks
we
cannot
want
a
choice
of
effectual
Remedies
,
and
forasmuch
as
Children
the
chief
subjects
of
Worms
and
wormy
Slime
,
are
not
easily
induced
to
admit
bitter
tasted
Remedies
inward
,
it
concerns
to
contrive
otherwise
to
answer
our
intention
.
Besides
the
Place
or
Residence
of
the
offenders
is
to
be
considered
,
viz.
whether
such
be
the
Stomach
or
Bowels
,
if
the
Bowels
,
whether
the
most
external
as
the
Rectum
,
or
more
internal
as
the
Colon
,
or
Ilia
,
or
Jejunum
.
And
according
to
the
different
seat
of
such
internal
scandals
or
offensives
of
life
,
we
differently
level
our
Remedies
and
manner
of
cure
.
If
the
Stomach
be
the
residence
thereof
,
Sickness
and
gripings
in
that
part
,
especially
at
times
most
remote
from
eating
,
sudden
qualms
and
incitations
to
vomiting
,
pains
in
the
head
,
disturbed
rest
,
stinking
breath
,
&c.
may
discover
the
same
,
and
then
a
Vomit
,
about
an
hour
after
having
well
eaten
may
be
the
most
proper
thereto
.
But
if
the
seat
of
the
Vermine
be
lower
in
the
jejune
or
hungry
gut
,
a
fit
place
to
nourish
these
milk
suckers
to
the
deprivation
of
the
whole
Body
from
its
due
supplies
,
of
which
likewise
the
craving
vermin
being
quickly
cheated
by
the
numerous
sucking
Chyle
vessels
found
there
,
are
rendred
more
restless
,
and
thereby
become
more
easily
felt
by
the
observing
Patient
.
However
vomitings
do
not
there
usually
ensue
,
but
rather
acute
gripes
on
the
sudden
afflicting
and
thence
skreeks
:
for
the
greater
worms
being
bred
here
for
their
room
sake
,
as
well
as
the
most
supply
of
milky
juice
,
while
they
follow
their
quickly
withdrawn
milk
unto
the
orifices
of
the
sucking
vessels
,
may
well
knip
the
tender
Fibres
thereof
,
and
cause
sudden
twitches
oft
complained
of
,
to
dislodge
these
notorious
offenders
,
though
sometimes
by
forcible
vomiting
(
whereby
the
mouth
of
the
Ventricle
through
weakness
or
otherwise
may
be
relaxed
)
they
accidentally
may
be
pumped
upwards
.
As
in
such
cases
which
happen
now
and
then
where
large
worms
are
cast
forth
by
vomitings
,
yet
such
are
not
natives
of
the
Stomach
,
but
as
is
said
before
of
the
Jejunum
or
other
next
productive
guts
,
wherefore
the
most
proper
conveyace
for
them
is
downwards
by
the
force
of
aloetick
or
Mercurial
Medicaments
:
And
forasmuch
as
the
passage
is
tedious
for
such
slow
marchers
as
worms
are
,
there
are
requisite
repetitions
of
the
protruding
medicaments
at
least
for
three
daies
together
,
sometimes
six
they
ought
be
stimulated
to
their
exit
by
such
appropriated
Goads
.
And
further
to
render
the
whole
Region
of
the
Bowels
,
an
uneasie
residence
to
such
unwelcome
guests
an
external
plaister
of
our
Aloes
or
Sempervive
inspirated
to
a
due
softness
,
which
then
sticks
well
to
the
Navel
,
is
never
to
be
omitted
;
and
further
to
specificate
the
same
,
powder
of
formerly
ejected
worms
may
be
sprinkled
therewith
as
most
effectual
to
our
purpose
,
especially
for
Children
,
who
often
will
admit
no
internal
.
But
for
such
who
may
or
will
be
perswaded
to
take
in
a
bitter
sup
of
the
juice
of
the
Sempervive
simple
,
or
sweetned
into
a
dulcamare
Syrup
,
with
the
aforesaid
plaister
applied
to
the
Navel
;
they
may
need
no
further
,
provided
such
be
monthly
repeated
,
nay
those
who
through
daily
usage
of
Sempervive
juice
in
a
draught
of
water
,
have
rendred
the
same
agreeable
to
their
palates
,
as
some
have
done
this
as
well
as
Wormwood
Wine
in
England
:
such
Children
or
more
elderly
persons
have
had
the
most
florid
and
healthy
complexions
of
any
in
the
Indies
,
as
being
thereby
well
secured
against
worms
and
ill
effects
thence
arising
.
Besides
not
only
those
worms
of
the
Guts
but
of
the
Stomach
likewise
,
and
the
small
lesser
worms
of
all
stabling
in
the
Rectum
,
called
Ascarides
,
who
cluster
themselves
in
the
sink
of
the
Body
or
fundament
,
may
be
removed
by
internally
received
Sempervive
and
external
applications
of
the
same
bitter
enemies
in
Baths
and
Injections
,
so
then
seeing
Nature
hath
provided
us
so
plentifully
with
sufficient
Remedies
against
so
common
an
Enemy
,
it
's
our
own
fault
if
we
suffer
for
the
want
of
the
benefit
thereof
.
However
since
some
will
spare
the
Child
for
his
crying
,
and
comply
with
the
refusal
of
a
bitter
and
unpleasant
Remedy
,
we
must
set
down
an
insipid
though
effectual
one
calculated
to
deceive
the
obstinacy
of
ill
commanded
Children
,
and
such
Medicaments
are
those
which
partake
of
Mercurial
Irradiation
destructive
to
worms
where
ere
they
are
.
And
now
I
am
fallen
on
a
consideration
which
gives
me
as
much
wonder
as
any
in
Nature
,
and
yet
matter
of
fact
enforceth
it
upon
us
,
viz.
the
strange
operation
or
the
way
how
all
mercurial
Bodies
,
such
as
all
Metals
are
,
operate
with
a
kind
of
divinity
,
powerful
and
yet
without
diminution
of
their
Force
and
Virtue
.
Thus
the
common
emetick
Wine
may
always
be
supplied
from
the
same
undiminished
Crocus
Metallorum
:
Thus
likewise
the
Antimonial
Cup
communicates
its
vomitive
quality
to
its
contained
Liquor
remaining
the
same
in
weight
and
operation
,
though
years
and
ages
made
use
of
.
And
thus
our
common
Quicksilver
,
if
boiled
an
hour
or
two
in
fair
water
,
renders
the
whole
without
communication
of
scent
or
tast
or
least
imaginable
loss
of
parts
of
the
said
Mercury
,
a
certain
destroyer
of
worms
in
humane
body
,
nay
common
Quicksilver
is
enemy
to
worms
where
ere
it
be
placed
.
Hence
it
's
received
that
if
the
same
be
placed
any
where
,
as
among
Corn
,
&c.
where
worms
most
frequently
are
generated
,
it
defends
the
same
there
from
.
The
why
and
wherefore
I
dare
not
undertake
to
determine
,
Helmont
solves
it
by
an
Irradiation
,
supposing
Metals
according
to
their
names
to
be
no
less
than
earthen
Luminaries
,
Gold
as
supream
and
most
perfect
obtains
the
name
of
the
Sun
,
Silver
that
of
the
Moon
,
Tin
is
remarked
with
the
sign
of
Jupiter
,
Iron
with
Mars
his
note
,
Copper
is
signalized
by
Venus
,
and
Lead
they
give
Saturn's
Character
,
and
and
our
Quicksilver
is
commonly
known
by
the
name
of
Mercury
,
which
most
certainly
appears
to
lose
nothing
though
it
be
made
use
often
thousand
times
effectually
to
the
killing
of
worms
;
which
is
after
this
manner
:
Take
one
ounce
or
two
of
Quicksiilver
(
for
the
quantity
varies
nothing
)
boyl
the
same
in
two
quarts
of
water
in
a
glass
vessel
or
Bottle
,
pour
off
the
water
,
the
Quicksilver
in
its
full
weight
remains
at
bottom
,
use
the
insipid
Water
not
discernible
,
as
boyled
,
by
the
most
peevish
palate
of
Children
from
their
usual
drink
of
water
,
wherefore
they
drink
freely
thereof
.
The
proper
times
for
the
same
is
going
to
bed
or
in
the
night
,
three
nights
afore
and
as
many
after
the
full
Moon
.
But
since
this
Water
may
only
kill
the
worms
and
not
bring
such
away
,
if
the
Child
have
not
a
loose
belly
(
which
commonly
they
have
)
a
dissolution
of
Manna
℥
ss
,
in
their
Chocalata
may
secure
all
by
carrying
forth
the
skinny
slough
and
remains
,
which
might
otherwise
injure
health
,
such
loosness
at
the
time
or
from
the
cause
of
worms
killing
many
Children
indicates
what
ought
to
be
done
.
And
indeed
Manna
used
instead
of
Sugar
in
their
Chocalata
is
a
most
agreeable
and
proper
purge
in
such
cases
,
but
lest
the
loosness
like
a
wheel
set
a
turning
continue
too
long
,
though
the
moving
hand
be
suspended
,
let
our
Child
so
accosted
lest
he
be
too
much
weakned
,
take
of
our
true
Sweetner
of
our
Juices
and
benign
quieter
of
nature
,
viz.
of
China
Root
powdered
as
much
as
lies
on
a
knife
point
with
or
without
as
much
Sugar
to
carry
it
more
easie
down
the
Throat
,
after
which
washing
the
mouth
with
any
Liquor
,
let
the
Child
or
other
person
be
kept
warm
that
night
,
and
the
loosness
diminisheth
if
not
quite
ceaseth
.
Thus
the
poor
and
every
one
may
easily
and
safely
at
all
times
be
provided
against
the
general
affliction
arising
from
Worms
and
the
most
eminently
in
hot
and
moist
Countries
,
as
Jamaica
is
.
CHAP.
9.
Of
Venereal
Affects
.
IT
may
appear
reasonable
to
whoso
reads
this
and
the
other
Chap.
that
this
follows
the
former
of
Worms
,
and
surely
venereal
affects
in
the
West
Indies
,
may
well
challenge
a
particular
animadversion
,
affording
considerable
intimations
to
all
other
parts
where
those
unhappy
plants
have
taken
root
.
Neither
may
it
be
improper
to
enquire
into
the
first
Soyl
of
this
scourge
of
transgressing
humanity
,
to
know
whence
it
sprung
,
so
that
by
searching
the
originals
thereof
we
may
better
eradicate
its
foul
offspring
.
The
first
opening
of
this
Pandoras
Box
,
at
least
in
the
European
parts
,
was
at
the
Siege
of
Naples
,
where
the
Spaniards
returning
from
their
new
found
World
,
brought
with
them
as
great
a
rarity
,
this
new
found
distemper
.
Thus
they
severely
paid
for
their
treacherous
lavishing
the
Indian
Blood
,
and
the
sale
of
their
own
Faith
and
Humanity
:
among
others
they
brought
this
foul
return
of
a
Pox
to
themselves
.
And
had
they
still
engrost
it
to
themselves
without
any
participation
thereof
to
their
Neighbours
,
as
they
have
laboured
to
do
their
acquests
in
the
Indies
,
Europe
might
well
have
thanked
them
for
so
great
a
benefit
of
their
reserved
Temper
,
but
alas
!
a
Spaniard
is
too
free
of
his
Flesh
to
be
confined
within
his
own
Nation
,
(
but
like
a
plaguy
person
as
they
say
)
crowds
to
infect
others
with
no
other
than
the
pitiful
excuse
of
the
old
ditty
Solamen
miseris
,
&c.
and
miserable
comforters
are
such
all
,
especially
while
the
anguish
of
this
Nemesis
whippings
makes
them
feel
to
the
purpose
,
while
the
intestine
enemy
approaches
the
very
bone
,
and
there
by
violent
intrusion
separates
the
sensible
Periostium
.
What
memory
of
the
itching
cause
can
administer
any
softning
relief
,
but
rather
aggravate
the
inflamed
spirit
under
the
sense
of
so
foolish
a
barter
,
parting
with
the
golden
State
of
Health
and
Ease
for
so
babling
a
looking-Glass
of
their
own
misery
?
But
this
Itch
in
spite
of
Morals
will
be
catching
,
and
the
beginning
natural
pleasure
will
often
urge
the
smartful
end
,
especially
in
the
precipitant
Youth
,
who
scarcely
sufficiently
dread
the
Fire
till
they
have
been
savingly
burnt
.
Thus
some
are
saved
in
a
natural
sense
but
so
as
by
fire
,
and
there
are
those
who
dread
not
a
Purgatory
so
they
may
get
to
Heaven
,
but
me
thinks
it
were
more
desirable
to
need
no
such
trying
difficulties
,
Take
away
the
cause
and
the
effect
will
cease
,
fire
burns
not
where
fuell
disposeth
not
to
conflagration
,
let
the
Spaniard
enjoy
with
their
rich
Metals
their
fiery
Vulcanoes
,
both
as
the
entailed
results
of
their
American
Conquests
.
But
seeing
success
hath
placed
the
English
there
likewise
,
that
we
may
separate
the
pure
from
the
impure
,
the
Gold
from
its
dross
,
enjoy
the
West
Indies
without
its
native
disease
,
is
worth
more
pains
and
skill
than
I
under
this
Topick
can
well
afford
to
lavish
.
However
,
that
I
may
not
be
altogether
wanting
herein
,
I
may
presume
to
subjoyn
an
observation
with
my
conjectures
thereon
concerning
Venereal
affects
,
and
add
for
the
service
of
the
remote
and
such
as
are
destitute
of
help
and
remedies
,
such
easie
and
natural
ones
as
are
grounded
on
the
reason
of
the
disease
and
experiment
thereon
and
ready
at
hand
for
the
most
needy
sinner
conjoyning
an
Empirical
and
rational
cure
of
the
present
disease
in
one
method
of
relief
.
I
find
the
old
sower
stocks
of
Venereal
affects
most
plentiful
among
the
animal
Indians
,
and
the
cursed
posterity
of
the
naked
Cham
.
The
first
in
the
large
Tracts
of
the
American
,
the
latter
in
the
African
deserts
,
both
which
quarters
of
the
world
bring
forth
the
monstrous
Yaws
as
a
proper
Stock
to
engraft
a
new
cion
of
Disease
,
and
that
too
too
fruitful
in
the
Apples
of
Sodom
and
the
bitter
Fruits
of
Gonorrhoea
,
of
which
the
Europeans
to
their
great
costs
have
tasted
under
the
new
dished
affect
,
called
first
the
Neapolitan
,
and
then
the
French
Disease
;
whose
original
being
first
the
Yaws
,
reduceth
my
discourse
thither
.
The
Yaws
therefore
,
to
describe
if
not
define
the
same
,
is
a
seminal
taint
monstrously
corrupting
first
the
spermatick
parts
with
a
cold
indigested
putridness
,
branching
out
oft
in
the
Groin
and
obscene
parts
,
oft
infecting
the
Mouth
and
Throat
and
parts
neer
the
origination
of
the
Nerves
with
a
filthy
eating
crusty
Scab
,
which
needs
sharp
metalline
corrosives
to
cleanse
,
which
serves
but
for
a
time
neither
.
For
usually
yearly
or
oftner
at
the
cleansing
times
of
burthened
nature
it
returns
as
before
.
Mercurial
Medicaments
have
chiefly
been
made
use
of
for
its
internal
discharge
,
and
such
the
same
as
our
filthy
Pox
requires
,
the
Infants
oft
bring
it
into
the
World
with
them
,
and
are
the
cheif
subjects
of
its
more
easie
invasion
,
indicating
the
taint
of
their
spermatick
original
.
And
now
I
am
left
in
a
wood
to
find
the
first
cause
of
this
afflicting
Enemy
of
Mankind
,
whence
it
sprang
or
whence
deduced
,
and
by
ranging
to
and
fro
I
meet
with
strange
monstrous
mixtures
of
Animal
Shapes
,
more
than
ordinarily
imitating
the
actions
as
well
as
the
shapes
of
mankind
,
varying
sometimes
under
the
larger
size
of
Baboons
and
Drills
,
as
on
the
Virginia
Tracts
,
sometimes
under
that
of
Monkeys
and
Pongoes
,
as
in
Africa
,
the
Native
Negroes
Seat
,
or
less
under
the
Malmaset
,
as
among
the
Indians
of
the
more
southern
Main
of
America
.
All
which
at
first
sight
bespeak
too
neer
alliance
with
the
Lords
of
the
creation
by
some
unhappy
jumble
of
the
rational
with
the
brutal
Nature
,
a
sin
against
the
principles
of
our
Being
,
therefore
significantly
punished
as
well
as
naturally
inflicted
in
the
polluted
Yawes
.
It
was
not
without
tacitly
instructing
Wisdom
that
Linsiwoolsy
was
forbidden
by
the
Law
of
Moses
,
and
the
same
did
well
prohibit
the
Jews
sowing
their
Field
with
two
sorts
of
Seed
,
and
God
condemned
him
that
lay
with
a
beast
to
dye
,
not
only
out
of
absolute
sovereignty
,
but
paternal
care
of
his
Creations
good
,
all
which
tide
of
Nature
and
goodness
whoso
dares
boldly
stem
,
must
needs
reap
the
fruit
of
his
degeneracy
and
sordid
madness
in
a
sutable
plague
of
morbifick
Pollutions
,
the
Disease
indicating
its
cause
in
its
punishment
as
well
as
natural
produce
.
For
when
the
rich
Oar
of
humane
Seminals
shall
wickedly
wantonly
be
suckt
in
by
a
vastly
unsutable
Matrix
,
to
say
no
worse
,
it
must
necessarily
suffer
egregious
corruption
,
and
not
only
bring
forth
an
anomalous
Breed
,
but
convey
an
afflicting
Taint
into
the
spermatick
vessels
of
the
more
noble
unlading
Animal
,
who
having
discharged
his
own
rich
Treasure
designed
by
nature
and
just
rule
of
commutation
for
as
rich
a
Cabinet
,
receives
necessarily
into
the
porous
vacated
Tube
the
polluted
Emergencies
of
the
brutal
nature
.
The
which
how
well
they
must
necessarily
agree
in
the
internal
frame
of
humanity
,
let
's
consider
by
viewing
mishapen
Satyrs
,
how
devillishly
loathsome
it
is
to
behold
a
cloven
foot
under
an
erected
shape
,
and
what
filthy
excrescency
shews
a
beastly
superadded
tail
,
where
an
humane
front
bespeaks
a
divine
Majesty
.
As
horrid
a
discord
must
needs
be
found
in
the
ill
blended
humours
within
,
when
brutal
communications
in
seminals
jangle
Nature
into
a
confused
medly
,
what
less
than
unheard
of
corruptions
do
necessarily
emerge
?
Therefore
loathsome
to
every
sense
and
much
more
to
the
rational
being
,
whose
advantage
lies
in
truly
adjusting
Agents
with
Patients
,
whereby
his
overruling
wisdom
out-doth
the
whole
Creation
,
made
the
decorum
of
submitting
obedience
,
wherefore
he
rightly
becomes
the
Lord
and
Ruler
thereof
.
Whereas
should
he
descend
to
an
unsutable
communication
,
and
such
but
generally
obtain
,
he
must
quickly
quit
his
Royalty
,
if
not
to
the
beastty
herd
it self
,
yet
to
whoso
retains
entire
Humanity
.
Hence
the
Black
may
well
become
naturally
Slaves
,
and
the
vast
Territories
of
the
Indians
be
easily
invaded
and
kept
in
subjection
by
inconsiderable
force
of
the
Spanish
Tyranny
.
And
even
those
Conquerours
through
mixture
with
these
animal
People
,
reap
their
infirmity
of
Body
and
Mind
,
and
now
lay
them
open
to
a
newer
and
more
hopeful
conquest
;
of
which
it
's
no
place
for
me
to
treat
saving
lightly
to
point
at
Natures
disposition
thereto
and
to
warn
the
intending
Conquerours
to
escape
the
same
degenerating
Pit
of
naturally
necessary
destruction
.
But
forasmuch
as
it
is
too
late
for
our
present
afflicted
to
prevent
an
incumbent
evil
,
I
must
needs
administer
some
relief
to
the
Yaws
ere
we
proceed
further
:
and
here
to
be
more
regular
I
advise
the
cleansing
of
the
first
ways
as
to
Stomach
,
Guts
,
&c.
by
a
Vomit
either
of
infusion
of
Crocus
Metallorum
or
else
Mercurius
vitae
gra
.
iij
,
or
else
if
neither
be
present
,
of
our
Physick
Nuts
from
five
to
nine
,
the
next
day
six
ordinary
Pills
of
our
native
Aloes
,
to
carry
off
the
remainder
(
if
any
)
of
the
Vomit
or
moved
humours
.
Interpose
one
or
two
daies
rest
,
and
repeat
the
like
Vomit
,
and
succeedingly
purge
two
daies
more
,
and
so
a
third
time
:
in
the
most
radicated
and
polluting
Yaws
,
rest
three
daies
and
take
away
blood
,
if
it
be
very
thin
and
waterish
the
less
,
if
thick
℥
viij
,
after
which
at
night
,
and
so
successively
dress
the
Yawe
Sore
with
this
Unguent
,
take
Verdigrease
,
put
the
same
into
a
crucible
or
strong
earthen
Pot
,
which
place
in
a
hot
fire
for
four
or
five
hours
,
even
until
all
the
greenness
of
the
Verdigrease
disappear
through
the
discharge
of
is
t
corroding
vinegar
drove
away
by
the
fire
,
and
there
remain
a
fine
Calx
of
Copper
,
which
put
into
a
Crucible
or
earthern
Pot
with
its
equal
proportion
of
Sea
Salt
,
grinding
them
well
into
fine
powder
,
which
Powder
is
to
be
urged
by
the
fire
strongly
for
two
hours
,
and
after
remove
the
same
and
grind
it
being
reduced
into
a
lump
,
expose
the
said
Powderin
an
earthen
Pot
to
the
night
Air
,
afterwards
with
its
double
quantity
of
the
fat
of
Snakes
,
mix
it
well
into
an
ointment
,
which
keep
for
use
;
which
may
be
thus
,
anoint
the
external
Sores
till
healed
;
and
lest
such
should
return
,
use
to
purge
them
with
Aloes
every
full
Moon
.
But
lest
Aloes
through
much
usage
may
cause
evacuations
of
Blood
,
it
may
be
taken
in
the
Liquor
of
a
Water
Million
,
which
notice
may
serve
in
general
in
the
use
of
Aloes
or
Aloetick
Medicaments
.
To
give
an
account
why
I
alter
the
Verdigrease
from
its
Vinegar
,
which
makes
it
verd
or
green
;
and
mix
the
same
rather
with
Sea
Salt
,
is
because
Sea
Salt
is
far
more
penetrating
,
and
opening
both
the
Body
of
the
Copper
and
that
of
the
Yawy
Patients
,
which
thereby
is
more
balsamically
tinctured
to
the
casting
forth
of
of
the
filthy
Enemy
,
which
reason
when
once
I
had
secured
by
experience
I
could
not
but
comply
with
.
And
hitherto
of
the
stock
of
our
engrafted
Neopolitan
Disease
.
I
must
now
pass
to
the
unhappy
cion
finished
in
the
Pox
.
Unhappy
Planters
who
first
introduced
it
,
and
more
unhappy
who
meet
not
with
a
cure
!
Such
as
in
the
generality
are
the
polluted
Spaniards
throughout
all
their
new
Conquests
greatly
as
well
as
justly
infested
with
this
intestine
Enemy
.
The
which
we
cannot
but
follow
,
the
better
to
chase
it
away
from
our
neighbourhood
,
for
even
that
contaminates
with
disposing
inclinations
and
renders
neerest
friendship
too
hazardous
.
It
were
need
less
to
describe
this
disease
,
or
to
concern
my self
in
this
paper
with
the
so
often
treared
on
subject
,
did
not
something
offer
it self
new
from
what
I
have
yet
,
with
which
rendring
the
distemper
known
and
therefore
a
Cure
more
certain
and
readily
from
the
original
of
the
Affect
,
viz.
the
Yaws
produced
as
before
said
from
the
unnatural
mixture
of
humane
with
brutal
seed
.
So
our
Pox
is
nothing
else
in
its
first
rise
than
a
further
ingrediency
of
the
European
viz.
the
aforesaid
corrupted
seminals
in
the
Blacks
and
Indians
from
whence
it
may
well
be
propagated
under
the
present
appearance
of
the
Pox
,
the
which
in
its
beginning
being
manifest
in
a
virulent
Gonorrhaea
,
leads
me
first
to
consider
thereof
and
that
differently
from
any
thing
yet
remarked
as
I
know
of
on
that
subject
,
which
accidentally
suggested
it self
from
observations
here
made
,
while
to
my
amazement
such
running
discharge
manifested
it self
,
what
it
might
be
,
by
presenting
to
the
the
sight
large
living
white
Maggots
or
Worms
.
The
which
appearance
streight
put
me
on
new
thoughts
,
viz.
that
the
Taint
of
corrupted
seminal
Particles
or
a
corrupted
odour
,
for
such
oft
is
a
sufficient
original
of
a
Gonorrhaea
,
from
and
in
feminal
vessels
,
may
very
easily
produce
worms
,
and
such
by
encreasing
and
swelling
into
bigness
cause
erection
and
streitning
the
Fraenum
,
and
render
the
Urine
obstructed
and
guttatim
discharged
,
and
when
such
Animals
grow
too
large
for
the
narrow
Continent
,
they
must
needs
burst
and
afford
the
discharge
which
Gamesters
talk
of
,
and
from
the
skin
of
the
bursted
Maggots
white
raggy
Fibres
may
shew
themselves
in
the
Urine
.
I
might
instance
in
more
circumstances
to
render
the
probability
,
but
such
I
leave
to
each
expert
to
do
for
himself
,
the
naked
truth
being
ashamed
of
my
English
vest
.
After
such
skins
are
throughly
cast
forth
,
and
yet
the
vermifying
Taint
being
not
eradicated
,
it
may
infest
other
parts
of
the
Body
with
the
like
,
though
lesser
vermine
,
the
which
may
solve
all
the
appearances
in
a
confirmed
Pox
.
Thence
it
is
easie
to
render
a
reason
of
the
little
Twitches
on
the
membranous
parts
,
and
if
not
prevented
great
pains
at
the
very
Bone
,
when
these
animals
shall
begin
to
terebrate
and
work
themselves
into
these
solid
parts
.
Also
hence
it
may
be
that
some
parts
are
afflicted
,
while
others
have
only
sympathy
to
disturb
them
,
and
these
passions
are
various
according
to
the
unhappy
quicknings
of
these
Tormentors
.
The
nature
of
the
usual
Cure
complies
with
such
a
conceit
;
therefore
it
is
found
beneficial
as
killing
worms
,
as
all
know
Mercury
to
be
eminent
.
Therefore
besides
all
bitter
things
,
as
our
Purgators
are
,
prevail
from
the
same
reason
,
the
strange
long
Guinny
Worms
,
arising
from
the
Yaw
teint
found
especially
in
the
Children
and
Youth
of
the
Blacks
may
speak
somewhat
on
the
behalf
.
But
if
the
suggestion
be
true
,
each
one
may
find
more
to
say
of
it
,
if
not
,
I
have
said
too
much
of
Venereal
Affects
,
for
this
place
and
my
design
.
However
,
that
I
may
not
leave
the
indigent
and
remote
Person
helpless
under
those
evils
,
I
must
according
to
my
proposals
give
them
a
true
Cure
in
their
own
reach
,
taking
Indications
from
my
present
hypothesis
and
experience
of
the
place
.
For
that
the
place
alters
much
the
cure
of
the
Disease
,
I
question
not
;
wherefore
Holland
which
is
cold
and
moist
requires
a
double
dose
generally
of
that
Physick
,
whereof
in
France
single
will
well
work
and
serve
the
turn
.
And
in
a
confirmed
Pox
,
they
generally
remove
from
one
to
to
the
other
place
,
from
heavier
phlegmatick
low
Countries
to
the
more
brisk
and
drier
Air
of
France
,
placing
much
of
cure
in
the
nature
of
the
Region
.
And
ours
of
Jamaica
being
so
sweatingly
warm
,
and
the
Air
from
its
Nitre
piercingly
cleansing
,
assists
much
our
ready
cure
,
which
may
be
thus
,
if
we
begin
with
the
first
Gonorrhoea
or
virulent
running
of
the
Reins
,
which
I
'll
suppose
to
arise
as
first
suggested
,
it
may
wholly
and
most
safely
be
absolved
by
purgations
,
for
which
I
calculate
and
use
this
native
Electuary
,
for
so
I
call
it
,
being
composed
of
what
the
place
affords
;
not
but
that
most
purging
Pills
as
being
bitter
and
aloetick
,
effect
the
same
,
such
as
Extractum
Rhoei
,
Pill
.
Ruffi
,
Hierae
cum
agarico
,
&c.
However
since
my
Jamaica
Man
may
be
destitute
of
the
former
,
let
him
provide
himself
of
the
following
Electuary
.
Take
of
Pulp
of
Tamarinds
,
&
Cassia
Fistula
,
of
each
lb
ss
,
the
Juice
of
our
Aloes
or
Sempervive
lb
iij
,
of
our
small
red
Pepper
dryed
and
powdered
one
Scruple
,
or
about
eight
or
ten
of
the
small
Cods
,
of
Winters
Bark
called
Cinnamon
Bark
powdered
one
Scruple
and
half
,
of
Malasses
clarified
with
the
white
of
an
Eg
lb
jss
,
put
all
these
into
an
earthen
Pot
,
which
place
in
the
Sun
,
stirring
the
mixtures
with
a
wooden
Spatula
twice
or
thrice
a
day
,
let
it
stand
till
it
thicken
to
a
due
temper
of
a
soft
Electuary
;
which
keep
for
use
not
only
in
our
present
case
,
but
as
a
general
purging
Electuary
.
When
such
may
be
requisite
,
whereof
from
℥
ss
to
℥
iss
,
may
be
a
Dose
taken
downwards
,
and
by
way
of
Clyster
℥
ij
may
be
admitted
.
Let
the
Patient
of
our
present
cure
take
℥
ss
thereof
,
or
two
good
broad
knifes
points
full
in
the
morning
fasting
,
and
as
much
at
night
going
to
bed
,
two
hours
after
having
eaten
some
spare
supper
:
continue
such
usage
every
other
day
,
till
the
Gonorrhoea
or
running
of
the
Reins
cease
.
Let
the
diet
be
temperate
,
though
I
prohibit
nothing
but
excess
in
quantity
:
The
Madera
Wine
with
water
may
rather
be
drunk
than
cool
drinks
,
from
which
I
diswade
,
water
being
more
preferable
though
alone
,
Garlick
in
all
his
Sauces
may
comply
with
the
intention
of
the
Cure
as
being
an
Enemy
to
Worms
,
as
all
bitter
herbs
.
Neither
may
salt
meat
be
forbidden
for
the
same
reason
,
I
never
add
but
strictly
disswade
the
use
of
astringent
Pills
,
such
conducing
to
prolong
our
distemper
into
a
confirmed
Pox
,
which
I
cure
the
same
way
but
in
more
time
.
As
for
those
who
cannot
be
at
the
charge
of
the
former
Electuary
,
let
them
take
of
the
juice
of
Sempervive
in
all
the
water
they
drink
,
or
the
liquor
of
Water
Million
;
they
may
more
properly
take
the
same
for
preventing
the
force
of
Aloes
in
the
opening
of
the
vessels
and
effusion
of
blood
thereby
.
However
take
care
of
repeating
such
occasions
of
cure
,
lest
by
usage
it
proves
less
effectual
,
and
by
a
continued
taint
of
the
vessels
amount
to
a
compleated
Pox
;
which
to
describe
,
is
an
universal
sour
taint
of
the
spermatick
parts
.
From
whence
and
from
prevaricated
natural
heat
,
especially
at
the
time
of
the
Moon
,
and
other
circumstances
,
may
be
quickned
into
life
,
and
then
disturbing
motion
,
a
kind
of
small
worms
,
such
as
appear
in
Vinegar
and
degenerated
Juices
,
which
Animalcula
by
twitching
the
membranous
parts
cause
those
pains
which
are
usually
felt
there
,
as
well
the
usual
ones
such
as
are
easily
born
,
as
those
which
exceed
in
cruciating
torture
,
while
these
worms
terebrate
the
bones
,
or
the
immediate
covering
thereof
called
the
Periostium
.
But
if
these
quickned
Executioners
take
their
course
outward
towards
the
skin
,
they
then
worst
themselves
there
,
and
by
forcing
themselves
through
the
skin
dy
and
ly
buried
in
the
crusting
Scabs
easily
known
by
the
eye
of
each
due
observer
,
which
last
apparent
discharge
is
most
usually
in
the
Indies
,
because
the
daily
sweating
and
open
Pores
incline
thereto
,
so
that
pains
at
Bones
are
less
frequent
here
than
in
the
colder
northern
Parts
,
wherein
the
hard
constrictions
of
the
skin
through
cold
encourage
these
Animals
to
harbour
inward
.
For
which
reason
cold
weather
may
well
most
afflict
such
Patients
in
such
places
:
but
between
the
warm
Tropicks
such
accidents
rarely
if
ever
happen
except
in
the
grisles
of
the
Nose
,
which
being
neer
at
hand
and
recipient
of
the
discharging
Brine
is
often
hazarded
thereby
through
the
ignorance
of
the
pretending
Curers
,
signally
marking
the
sinner
by
a
breach
in
that
part
;
from
which
accidents
as
well
as
others
of
the
Pox
,
as
also
from
the
bitter
Root
thereof
,
that
the
concerned
may
better
free
themselves
;
there
are
two
intentions
to
be
considered
from
the
nature
of
the
Disease
,
the
first
is
killing
the
vermine
and
eradicating
the
rest
of
sour
spermatick
Juices
;
the
second
is
to
sweeten
the
vessels
and
introduce
a
contrary
order
that
may
defend
from
the
former
impression
.
The
first
is
performed
either
by
Aloetick
or
other
bitter
Purgations
,
such
as
are
enemies
to
worms
,
as
those
are
of
a
mercurial
nature
,
the
latter
being
obvious
Lippis
&
tonsoribus
leaves
the
first
to
be
more
particularly
remarked
as
being
most
safe
and
sufficiently
effectual
.
Let
therefore
the
transgressor
punish
himself
by
conformity
to
the
ensuing
course
,
let
him
take
of
the
Electuary
before
described
℥
j
every
other
morning
,
unless
some
accident
prohibit
,
if
he
exceed
or
lessen
the
Dose
according
as
as
he
finds
it
purge
him
,
it
matters
little
save
time
:
At
night
let
him
take
of
our
China
powder
ʒj
,
and
drink
of
the
Drink
made
for
that
purpose
of
China
Root
,
warm
to
sweat
with
,
the
drink
ought
be
made
new
every
day
without
being
fermented
with
Sugar
or
Age
,
the
Water
is
only
to
be
boiled
as
that
for
Tea
usually
is
half
away
,
then
so
much
China
sliced
added
thereto
as
may
make
the
decoction
of
a
Clarret
colour
:
there
can
be
no
excess
in
that
Root
,
neither
need
ought
be
added
save
for
palate
sake
a
little
Sugar
,
but
it
's
better
without
for
our
intention
;
let
him
drink
thereof
every
night
in
bed
plentifully
about
two
quarts
,
the
better
to
sweeten
the
sower
Juices
which
China
powerfully
doth
in
these
affects
,
as
well
as
in
others
,
such
as
the
Gouts
,
Tertians
,
Hecticks
,
Consumptions
,
&c.
Moreover
to
comply
with
the
same
intention
,
there
is
a
most
admirable
Gum
,
which
the
wounded
Boars
have
found
out
for
us
:
for
they
presently
betake
themselves
to
the
Trees
,
and
strike
it
with
their
Tushes
,
for
their
cure
outflows
a
thick
balsamick
juice
which
hardens
to
the
consistence
of
Bees
Wax
in
the
Air
,
neither
is
it
unlike
thereto
,
but
transcends
any
Gum
I
have
yet
met
with
in
its
pleasant
perfume
,
this
Gum
hath
no
forbidden
quality
,
but
admirably
complies
with
our
intentions
in
the
present
case
as
well
as
in
many
other
,
of
which
elsewhere
.
That
which
Turpentine
performs
through
its
fragrant
passing
the
urinary
and
other
waies
(
for
by
such
odour
I
l'e
suppose
it
beneficial
)
this
Gum
outdoes
,
more
powerfully
impressing
those
parts
with
salutiferous
perfumings
,
agreeable
to
the
intention
in
our
present
case
,
whereby
the
cure
is
perfected
and
secured
,
where
I
will
take
leave
to
end
my
discourse
.
CHAP.
10.
Of
the
Dry
Belliach
.
I
refer
my
hardest
task
to
the
last
,
that
my
thoughts
may
have
a
longer
time
and
experience
for
their
happy
intimations
concerning
the
Bellyach
.
A
Disease
so
called
from
its
most
urgent
symptome
,
which
is
exquisite
pain
,
suffered
under
this
affect
in
that
same
most
sensible
part
;
a
Part
by
God
himself
styled
the
seat
of
fellow
feeling
and
divine
sympathy
;
most
tender
,
and
therefore
most
ready
to
receive
all
impressions
;
most
necessary
to
life
,
and
therefore
when
obstructed
long
,
carrying
most
feeling
horror
with
it
:
from
its
seat
it
may
seem
to
have
some
alliance
with
iliack
and
colick
Passions
,
and
sometimes
it
may
add
both
of
them
to
it self
,
which
however
are
but
consequents
or
rather
concomitants
and
not
the
disease
,
no
more
than
the
shadow
is
the
Body
.
This
Bellyach
as
well
as
those
additional
torments
may
need
the
invocation
as
well
as
the
name
of
miserere
mei
:
For
,
to
confess
the
truth
,
if
any
thing
hath
dismal
aspect
in
the
Indies
,
it
is
this
Disease
of
the
dry
Belliach
.
But
that
not
so
much
from
the
incurableness
as
the
want
of
care
,
there
being
no
impossibility
therein
,
were
ignorance
banished
:
As
for
my self
though
I
may
grope
as
in
the
dark
in
an
unknown
path
;
yet
through
the
guidance
of
my
observation
from
the
nature
of
the
Affect
,
the
Attributes
thereof
,
it
s
inseparable
Conjuncts
,
its
Causes
and
Circumstances
,
Symptoms
,
Consequents
,
&c.
comparing
the
West
Indies
with
the
East
,
I
cannot
but
presume
to
hold
the
Candle
in
this
same
darksome
distemper
.
The
general
occasional
cause
is
contracting
cold
,
excepting
there
,
where
contagion
from
excrements
,
&c.
hath
propagated
its
like
,
a
cold
not
to
be
found
in
the
Northern
Climes
,
but
even
there
where
the
Sun
showers
his
most
plentiful
heat
.
Thus
the
sharpest
Vinegar
results
from
the
sweetest
Wine
,
thus
freezing
by
the
fire
side
must
needs
be
the
most
violent
;
thus
hardest
Steel
is
made
by
the
softning
fire
,
and
cold
taken
between
the
hot
Tropicks
if
seated
in
the
region
of
the
Belly
,
&c.
Cramps
the
Muscles
of
the
Abdomen
and
tender
Fibres
of
the
Guts
with
the
contractings
of
the
torturing
Bellyach
,
and
there
's
the
original
Cause
,
heres
the
formality
of
the
direfull
Distemper
.
Neither
may
it
seem
strange
,
that
Cold
and
Heat
should
so
eminently
meet
in
one
place
,
while
the
whole
World
is
upheld
by
its
bounding
contraries
,
&
consequently
where
heat
is
intended
cold
must
obtain
its
proportion
of
contracting
vigour
(
wherein
its
formality
lies
)
though
not
of
extending
enlargement
;
so
that
there
may
be
more
cold
in
less
room
,
though
less
room
for
cold
.
Therefore
if
Cold
in
such
places
chance
to
obtain
,
its
Tyranny
may
be
most
severe
and
cruelly
urging
;
thus
strong
Springs
drawn
closest
project
the
strong
force
,
exercising
their
aggravated
Energies
with
greatest
violence
.
For
Cold
is
not
a
simple
privation
of
heat
,
but
a
strong
competitor
therewith
,
and
strengthens
its
opposite
,
while
it
subdues
its
force
to
it self
:
Thus
the
conquering
heat
growes
strong
through
the
acquest
of
subjected
cold
;
the
strugling
Enemy
inflaming
his
Conquerour
to
keep
it
under
.
And
if
ere
he
chance
to
break
the
yoaking
Bond
,
with
what
violence
doth
the
Captive
triumph
,
cruciating
the
tender
Fibres
with
obdurate
contractions
;
wherein
the
sharp
sting
of
the
Bellyach
lies
.
But
further
to
assign
a
sufficient
compleat
cause
for
so
great
an
evil
as
we
see
this
Bellyach
to
be
:
we
must
add
the
superior
aggravator
of
all
Spasms
and
convulsive
motions
,
viz.
the
Moon
,
which
we
have
reason
to
allow
as
the
timer
of
such
like
affects
:
for
it
is
at
her
full
that
the
tide
of
such
nervous
Diseases
rise
highest
,
and
in
a
place
where
her
direct
Beams
,
as
between
the
Tropicks
,
are
most
strong
,
this
Spasm
of
the
Bellyach
may
well
derive
an
afflicting
enforcement
.
Neither
is
such
supposition
chymerical
,
to
give
more
power
to
the
direct
aspect
of
the
Moon
between
the
Tropicks
than
she
may
challenge
elsewhere
;
for
demonstration
evinceth
it
frequently
,
that
Fish
taken
in
the
moist
Moon-shiny
nights
most
suddenly
grow
short
and
rotten
,
nay
that
side
of
the
fish
which
chanceth
to
ly
open
to
that
light
,
while
the
covered
part
of
the
Fish
remains
more
firm
.
Moreover
I
have
seen
my self
most
severe
Spasms
of
the
one
half
of
a
man
who
hath
ventured
to
sleep
in
the
Moonshine
,
and
other
lesser
Spasms
through
long
continuance
under
this
nocturnal
Luminary
.
Moreover
that
our
assigned
causes
may
not
come
short
of
the
great
effect
,
we
may
well
add
the
mineral
Gas
descending
from
the
Caverns
of
the
mountanous
Tracts
;
most
eminently
manifesting
themselves
in
our
cold
Norths
,
as
a
reasonable
aggravator
if
not
producer
of
such
affects
.
And
that
such
Gas
must
needs
break
forth
from
mountanous
hollows
,
no
one
will
hesitate
;
and
that
such
egregiously
affect
the
nervous
parts
,
and
cramp
oft
the
tender
Fibres
in
weaker
men
with
convulsive
Spasms
,
is
as
easily
granted
.
I
have
known
in
the
Lead
Works
in
Derby
,
there
where
the
fumes
of
the
separating
Oar
hath
infested
the
Air
,
which
as
heavy
laden
with
its
weighty
inmate
,
and
falling
on
the
neighbouring
fields
of
Grass
,
hath
communicated
the
same
effect
to
the
grasing
Cattle
as
our
torturing
Bellyach
,
of
which
the
brutal
Patients
give
sufficient
notices
by
their
bellowing
complaints
,
their
restless
motions
,
and
convulsive
Deaths
.
Again
,
the
nature
of
the
Parts
first
affected
ought
chiefly
to
be
considered
,
forasmuch
as
thence
flow
the
most
eminent
apparent
evils
,
such
as
the
constipation
of
the
Belly
,
obstructing
or
lessening
of
the
peristaltick
motion
;
thence
inflaming
heat
;
and
thence
obdurateness
of
excrementitious
Passengers
;
thence
their
immoveable
resistance
;
from
whence
the
aggravation
of
the
first
Evils
with
addition
of
irritating
vomitings
,
corruptions
of
Chyle
into
porraceous
and
adust
Choler
,
dejections
of
Appetite
,
and
a
general
infirmity
,
with
an
Iliad
of
Evils
linking
each
other
to
falter
the
infirm
Man
to
his
uneasie
Couch
.
At
the
first
seasure
of
this
Evil
,
the
Muscles
of
the
Abdomen
,
and
sometimes
those
of
the
Breast
,
through
contractions
prove
hard
and
painful
,
as
in
our
ordinary
Cramps
;
the
Pulse
heavy
and
slow
,
yet
eaven
enough
,
after
some
time
the
pain
is
shifting
and
communicated
to
the
Muscles
of
the
Back
;
thence
the
Urine
flows
sparingly
and
appears
red
as
if
Brick
were
mixed
therewith
:
Pain
aggravates
more
and
more
;
and
want
of
sleep
and
rest
,
with
other
uneasiness
and
commotions
of
mind
and
Body
,
entail
a
symptomatical
Fever
,
which
alters
and
changes
as
it
causes
do
.
This
feverish
Affect
and
irregular
hudling
up
and
down
of
the
contained
Juices
,
with
unhappy
stoppage
in
the
contracting
fibrous
Pipes
of
the
Muscles
,
still
inflame
the
cruciating
pains
,
and
like
added
Cyphers
to
the
first
sum
,
mount
it
high
enough
,
sometimes
to
bankrupt
nature
.
But
more
oft
spin
out
the
Thread
of
life
to
a
longer
durance
miserable
and
afflictive
;
for
heated
nature
by
its
often
tryals
to
fling
off
her
oppressions
,
violently
forceth
the
crude
and
indigested
Liquor
into
the
small
nervous
Passages
,
fitted
for
most
fine
indwellers
,
but
perforce
receptive
now
of
such
more
gross
ones
,
which
obstruct
and
plug
them
up
,
whence
lameness
in
such
parts
necessarily
succeeds
;
and
an
Atrophy
encreasing
the
weakness
of
the
Members
,
till
neither
hand
nor
foot
be
able
to
help
;
nor
yet
the
Physitian
quickly
,
but
Nature
and
time
effecteth
it
if
ever
.
However
to
prevent
the
height
of
those
accumulated
Evils
,
and
restore
the
the
lost
limbs
and
weak
parts
with
what
speed
possible
;
something
may
be
inserted
not
improper
nor
insuccesful
.
And
now
I
cannot
but
desire
the
Western
People
,
without
superstition
to
turn
their
faces
Eastward
,
and
see
there
the
usages
proper
to
such
a
temperament
,
to
consider
what
they
there
do
and
why
,
with
the
happy
sequel
or
matter
of
fact
.
That
in
hot
Countries
sweating
is
natural
as
well
as
necessary
needs
no
argument
,
and
where
necessaries
are
liable
to
be
obstructed
,
the
proper
Remedies
to
remove
are
or
ought
to
be
most
ready
at
hand
;
and
where
such
are
neglected
,
ill
consequences
may
well
ensue
.
Hence
the
West
Indies
though
of
the
same
temperament
with
the
East
,
may
sustain
superadded
Evils
,
which
the
customs
of
the
East
wisely
prevent
and
preserve
themselves
free
from
.
It
is
matter
of
fact
,
they
are
little
afflicted
if
any
thing
at
all
with
this
Evil
there
:
And
I
cannot
assert
a
better
reason
thereof
than
their
profitable
usages
of
Baths
and
Unctions
,
by
which
the
cutaneous
and
muscular
Fibres
being
secured
from
contracted
Spasms
,
and
kept
open
for
the
constant
discharge
of
transpiring
Particles
;
the
original
of
the
Bellyach
is
cut
off
,
as
also
the
crowd
of
ensuing
Symptoms
before
mentioned
:
Wherefore
let
whoso
fears
and
carefully
would
avoid
so
great
an
evil
,
be
provided
with
convenient
bathing
Tubs
or
places
adapted
to
so
necessary
an
office
in
a
sweating
Country
.
Let
him
alwaies
after
travelling
and
such
like
exercisings
descend
thereto
,
having
such
sutably
warmed
and
refreshingly
sweetned
with
Orange
Flowers
,
or
the
Waters
thereof
,
or
with
our
Spiknard
or
other
sweet
Herbs
.
For
such
Sweets
allure
the
Spirits
outward
to
supply
the
extream
Parts
to
withstand
their
cutaneous
Contractions
,
which
else
might
hinder
transpiration
,
but
now
by
Bathing
being
called
forth
,
and
encreased
at
least
in
the
extream
Parts
,
the
formality
of
the
Bellyach
is
removed
at
an
easie
rate
.
An
agreeable
unction
of
Orange
Flowers
or
Jessamine
Butter
or
such
like
,
lightly
rubbed
ore
the
Skin
;
especially
of
the
Belly
,
Back
,
&
Stomach
,
may
further
render
useful
the
Bath
for
the
ends
proposed
:
And
those
not
only
of
preventing
the
Bellyach
,
but
curing
it
likewise
.
Let
such
a
Patient
therefore
under
the
binding
constrictions
of
the
Bellyach
,
betake
himself
to
such
a
like
Bath
,
and
therein
sit
or
lye
as
long
as
he
may
well
bear
the
same
,
then
be
removed
into
a
Bed
and
be
rubbed
and
well
anointed
with
fragrant
not
strong
pungent
Oyls
.
For
the
latter
may
well
cause
further
contractions
,
whereas
the
more
kind
and
soft
may
relax
the
bondage
;
if
the
Excrements
of
the
Bellyach
need
,
as
oft
they
do
,
an
auxiliary
discharge
,
let
a
Clyster
of
Malasses
,
in
Milk
or
in
the
want
thereof
with
water
be
injected
just
as
they
enter
the
Bath
,
which
may
well
forward
a
beneficial
Stool
and
the
quieting
of
the
Bowels
.
As
for
a
specifick
(
for
the
Indians
have
many
such
)
my
Worthy
Friend
Doctor
Lawford
of
the
Island
of
Barbadoes
humanely
communicated
a
remarkable
one
in
this
case
to
his
Exellency
My
Lord
Vaughan
,
by
whose
favour
for
the
benefit
of
the
afflicted
,
I
subjoyn
the
same
,
having
found
the
Plant
as
described
,
through
the
assistance
of
an
ingenious
Botanick
Friend
here
,
who
by
the
description
taken
out
of
Piso
,
P.
102.
happily
met
with
the
same
,
of
which
saith
the
sagacious
Doctor
,
he
had
a
hundred
tryals
,
powdered
I
give
,
saith
he
ʒj
,
in
any
convenient
Liquor
,
and
repeat
it
once
in
three
or
four
hours
till
the
usual
symptoms
of
the
disease
abate
;
sometimes
I
give
℥
j
,
℥
ij
,
℥
iij
,
of
it
in
Syrups
:
also
in
decoctions
and
Clysters
.
It
is
an
admirable
Antidote
agaist
the
biting
of
Serpents
,
and
I
have
found
it
a
great
Diaphoretick
in
malignant
Fevers
.
So
far
the
Doctor
to
his
excellency
,
referring
to
the
Plant
it self
under
the
name
of
Cajacia
,
called
by
the
Spaniard
Erudos
Cobres
;
which
in
English
is
a
Snakeweed
,
for
its
great
use
and
service
frequently
known
to
the
Spaniards
.
Pisoes
description
is
exact
thus
,
it
is
a
small
creeping
milky
Plant
,
its
Leaves
not
unlike
those
of
Mint
but
longer
and
smaller
,
of
a
dark
green
colour
:
its
Stalk
inclining
to
a
reddishness
with
small
Fibres
or
hairy
Roots
,
between
its
leaf
at
the
joints
of
its
Stalk
come
forth
Flowers
of
a
green
colour
in
small
Bunches
.
This
specifick
being
every
where
to
be
found
growing
in
all
sorts
of
Soyl
and
therefore
ready
at
hand
,
I
'll
detain
my
Reader
no
further
,
but
recommend
in
my
former
prescribed
Baths
in
this
distemper
to
be
better
specificated
by
boyling
of
this
Cajacia
therein
;
and
for
strengthening
the
lost
Limbs
let
the
weakned
parts
be
fortified
with
an
Emplaster
of
our
afore
described
Gum
:
the
which
may
well
be
renewed
once
in
twenty
four
hours
using
warm
frictions
to
the
parts
so
affected
.
And
after
such
usage
the
Plaisters
to
be
continued
till
strength
is
restored
and
confirmed
to
the
suffering
Criple
,
who
then
may
fling
away
the
Crutches
of
adventitious
helps
,
where
I
rejoyce
to
leave
my
Patient
.
The
Conclusion
.
AS
I
prefaced
those
Chapters
of
which
particularly
I
have
now
treated
with
the
occasions
thereof
,
and
my
Method
therein
,
and
the
Reasons
inducing
thereto
:
So
now
by
way
of
conclusion
to
the
whole
,
I
shall
subjoyn
somewhat
that
may
have
place
in
each
case
,
where
Nature
shall
want
due
assistances
or
vigorous
fortifying
,
as
she
may
sometimes
in
any
of
the
forementioned
affects
.
As
also
recommend
the
East
Indian
or
other
Countries
like
ours
of
Jamaica
,
their
laudable
if
not
necessary
usages
of
Baths
for
the
keeping
free
and
open
the
Pores
to
healthful
transpirations
and
more
copious
Sweatings
.
The
which
for
want
of
such
assistances
,
at
some
time
or
other
may
cause
our
Bellyach
,
many
of
our
Tertians
and
other
Fevers
,
Dropsies
,
&c.
rationally
to
be
prevented
by
due
and
proper
Bathings
.
The
reasons
whereof
are
very
obviously
two
,
the
one
is
cleansing
from
relicts
of
obstructing
sweat
,
whereby
the
porous
Passages
being
opened
easily
admit
a
thoroughfair
to
Natures
ejectments
:
The
other
is
the
preservation
of
the
Tone
and
Spring
of
the
fibrous
Skin
,
for
the
better
strength
of
her
necessary
functions
,
both
which
are
secured
by
bathing
and
proper
anointings
.
Wherefore
let
whoso
desires
the
continuance
of
Health
and
vigour
in
this
our
Island
,
provide
himself
proper
bathing
Places
,
and
use
the
same
frequently
,
especially
after
Travellings
,
at
which
time
we
are
lyable
to
Fevers
,
as
also
upon
all
lassitudes
and
listless
indisposition
,
not
presently
after
,
but
rather
before
eating
,
and
four
hours
after
at
the
time
of
distribution
of
nourishment
into
the
extream
outward
parts
:
Then
may
such
most
properly
be
exercised
with
rubbings
in
a
warm
Bath
,
into
which
let
the
desirous
of
health
descend
carefully
both
of
time
in
residing
there
,
and
the
manner
thereof
:
The
time
,
that
it
may
not
exceed
to
faintness
,
but
refreshment
,
caused
as
well
from
Natures
relief
from
her
oppressed
Burthens
,
as
by
sweet
smells
effected
by
odoriferous
Herbs
or
Flowers
or
sweet
Waters
superadded
to
such
Baths
,
after
which
being
carefully
dried
and
gently
anoynted
,
let
such
pass
into
their
Beds
,
and
there
remain
half
an
hour
,
not
to
sweat
,
but
compose
nature
to
a
fit
briskness
of
exercising
new
vigour
,
when
they
arise
to
their
former
employ
.
Thus
tyred
wearisomness
too
incident
to
hot
Countries
is
defeated
,
life
it self
vigorated
in
all
its
exercisings
,
and
thereby
becomes
less
liable
to
Disease
.
There
remains
as
general
a
restaurative
and
high
,
most
innocent
Cordial
,
whereever
nature
shall
need
succours
either
for
the
Sick
or
well
habited
Man
;
of
which
since
we
are
neer
the
place
of
its
being
usually
found
,
I
must
say
somewhat
both
of
its
nature
and
use
to
our
desired
end
.
It
hath
been
already
received
by
all
that
Ambergriese
is
a
great
friend
to
Nature
,
and
its
use
hath
already
placed
it
in
high
Price
and
great
Demand
.
It
hath
every
where
been
esteemed
fit
to
attend
the
Courts
of
Princes
and
great
Men
:
but
yet
it
is
not
concluded
what
it
may
be
,
volumes
have
swelled
with
diversity
of
opinions
about
this
restaurative
Treasure
,
though
each
agree
in
its
just
transcendent
benefit
;
I
shall
not
trouble
my self
to
repeat
the
false
opinions
concerning
it
:
for
there
can
be
but
one
adjusted
to
the
truth
,
and
all
the
other
must
needs
miss
the
mark
.
In
general
I
can
never
believe
it
any
Mineral
or
Bitumen
,
because
it
is
so
throughly
innocent
,
and
its
perfection
consists
in
lightness
.
No
excrement
of
any
animal
,
Fish
or
other
,
as
of
a
great
Bird
,
as
the
voluminous
German
imagins
it
,
because
of
its
long
duration
and
liquid
unctuousness
discernable
by
heat
.
No
Liver
of
a
Fish
,
as
some
have
suggested
,
from
its
fibrousness
observed
when
fresh
;
which
may
otherwise
be
salved
:
besides
it
dissolves
not
,
nor
hardens
as
all
Livers
do
by
dry
heat
.
And
it
were
strange
to
find
the
Liver
without
some
other
parts
of
the
Fish
.
But
negatives
proving
nothing
,
I
must
add
matter
of
fact
;
and
that
,
wheresoever
Ambergriese
is
usually
found
,
there
are
poisonous
and
venomous
Fish
,
as
about
the
Barmudas
,
Bahame
Islands
,
and
the
Coasts
of
Florida
,
&c.
Secondly
,
that
the
Inhabitants
of
such
places
,
when
ever
poisoned
with
Fish
,
which
often
they
are
,
they
betake
themselves
to
Ambergriese
as
a
most
powerful
Antidote
,
and
are
cured
therewith
,
and
rescued
from
the
otherwise
most
horrid
Symptoms
threatning
life
hastily
,
without
the
assistances
of
this
sovereign
Remedy
.
Thirdly
,
that
from
the
good
success
it
had
agaiust
Poison
,
the
People
there
venture
on
it
in
almost
all
their
weaknesses
,
in
great
evacuations
by
Vomitings
and
Stools
,
and
all
other
too
liberal
discharges
of
nature
and
strength
:
In
dispiritments
from
Fevers
or
any
other
affect
they
happily
take
Ambergriese
.
And
which
adds
to
its
desirable
innocency
,
they
stand
not
on
quantity
from
any
other
cause
than
the
preciousness
of
that
Commodity
.
I
have
seen
the
Man
who
by
good
luck
in
finding
a
quantity
hereof
hath
eaten
ʒij
at
a
time
,
without
any
prejudice
to
himself
or
any
alteration
to
the
state
of
health
,
saving
that
he
was
cheerfully
disposed
as
persons
are
by
drinking
good
Wine
or
use
of
Opium
.
But
our
Amber
excels
both
,
for
it
neither
stupefies
nor
intoxicates
as
Wine
and
Opiates
are
apt
to
do
;
but
unites
by
its
odoriferous
parts
to
the
Spirits
themselves
,
and
strengthens
by
such
addition
these
brisk
Ministers
of
life
and
sense
,
thereby
enabling
to
cast
forth
an
Enemy
,
or
receive
its
assault
without
sinking
under
the
same
.
The
advantage
of
such
Auxiliaries
exceds
far
the
transient
inflammatory
ones
of
burning
Spirits
:
such
as
those
of
Wine
or
any
other
such
vegetable
ones
less
natural
.
Our
more
benign
Amber
carries
no
such
hazard
with
it
:
it
's
not
like
these
volatile
Spirits
who
like
forreign
Pidgeons
though
for
a
little
while
may
augment
the
home
fed
Stock
,
yet
quickly
deceive
the
hopes
of
the
owner
by
carrying
his
proper
ones
in
place
of
staying
themselves
;
the
like
doth
not
seldome
happen
to
those
profuse
crowders
of
warming
mixtures
under
the
characters
of
Cordials
,
whereby
the
spirits
are
hurried
into
a
brisk
motion
the
sooner
to
hasten
an
exit
.
The
first
fountain
of
all
descending
Physick
,
the
divine
Hippocrates
had
no
such
Spirits
for
his
familiars
;
Aqua
vitae
men
first
brought
them
into
use
,
Nature
knows
nothing
of
such
:
they
may
serve
as
external
fire
in
cold
Countries
to
exercise
the
healthy
,
but
conduce
little
to
the
Sick
,
saving
to
gratify
them
that
use
them
,
or
from
custome
expect
such
attendants
.
Whereas
our
benign
and
powerful
Ambergriefe
,
neither
serves
the
ignorant
Pomp
of
thronging
the
sick
mans
Chamber
with
useless
Glasses
,
nor
indangers
enflaming
the
weak
Spirits
to
a
Consumption
of
the
much
rather
to
be
encreased
Stock
:
nor
spurs
hurrying
nature
to
an
overhazarding
strein
:
But
succours
with
adventitious
and
lasting
strength
conveyed
apparently
by
subtile
and
lasting
odour
,
such
as
Nature
her self
hath
adapted
and
cooked
without
any
further
trouble
than
dissolution
in
Wine
or
Broth
or
other
warmed
Liquids
.
The
which
when
received
into
the
sensible
Stomach
rejoyceth
therewith
,
and
is
perfumed
thereby
to
a
continued
sending
of
the
same
impressions
into
the
whole
Body
;
whereby
the
Spirits
,
especially
the
Animal
ones
,
are
not
heated
but
refreshingly
cherished
and
strengthened
to
their
proper
functions
and
ejectments
of
forreign
morbisick
Taints
not
only
of
the
egregious
poisonous
ones
but
all
other
less
noxious
.
Hence
vomiting
and
loosnesses
cease
thereby
,
if
managed
as
directed
in
our
fifth
Chapter
;
intemperate
heats
in
Fevers
(
as
in
our
sixth
Chap.
described
)
if
urging
to
faintness
may
be
obviated
;
weakned
nature
under
Dropsies
,
of
which
in
our
seventh
Chap.
becomes
fortified
;
putrefactive
fumes
from
Worms
and
wormy
Slimes
of
which
in
the
eight
Chap.
is
over-ruled
;
debilities
in
venereal
affects
,
whereof
the
ninth
treateth
,
may
be
signally
remedied
,
and
the
horrid
Spasm
in
the
dry
Bellyach
(
of
which
our
tenth
Chap.
)
is
best
provided
.
Thus
we
dare
assign
Ambergriefe
to
be
our
most
universal
and
proper
Cordial
,
from
which
no
detriment
but
benefit
if
rightly
administred
for
the
most
part
,
which
is
enough
for
any
medicament
,
ensues
the
receiving
thereof
.
Wherefore
from
matter
of
fact
in
its
sovereign
usefulness
,
from
the
places
of
its
being
found
and
circumstances
thereabout
,
I
will
conclude
with
my
best
conjectures
concerning
this
great
restaurative
Medicament
as
well
as
most
deservedly
rich
Commodity
,
which
I
believe
to
be
a
Marine
Plant
growing
on
the
Rocks
or
shoals
of
such
places
where
poisoning
Fish
are
,
not
unlike
the
species
of
Caragauta
or
Manguey
or
Metle
a
large
strong
and
thick
leaved
and
succulent
Plant
,
whose
leaves
if
broke
afford
a
thick
roapy
juicy
bitumen
not
unlikely
to
appearance
of
the
white
or
black
Amber
,
both
which
I
'll
suppose
from
the
same
vegetable
.
But
that
the
black
is
the
more
recent
dropped
juice
,
and
therefore
most
heavy
;
the
grey
such
as
by
duration
laying
on
the
sand
neer
the
Root
of
its
original
ere
it
be
moved
thence
becomes
more
light
,
as
washed
with
the
cleansing
Pickle
of
the
Salt
Waters
from
its
more
crude
parts
;
thence
it
's
made
grey
and
more
porous
and
therefore
lighter
.
Whereas
the
newer
Juice
,
such
as
affords
the
Black
Amber
;
may
well
be
the
first
or
new
running
of
such
a
vegetable
caused
either
by
the
browsing
Fish
,
who
hastning
thither
for
this
Antidote
and
breaking
its
inclosing
Plant
,
may
cause
it
to
send
forth
this
precious
Juice
,
either
by
storms
cast
up
on
the
surface
of
the
water
presently
,
and
then
it
must
be
black
;
or
if
it
remain
longer
on
the
ground
where
it
first
run
from
its
original
,
it
turns
as
said
before
grey
and
may
be
mixed
with
little
sands
and
fish
scales
oftentimes
found
therein
:
or
else
if
the
Fish
that
hath
plentifully
fed
thereon
chance
suddenly
to
be
taken
,
in
such
it
may
be
seen
,
as
also
in
Sea
Fowl
who
allured
by
the
smell
,
when
cast
on
the
shore
by
Storms
,
and
devouring
much
of
the
same
,
being
grateful
to
all
life
may
puzle
catchers
of
such
Fowl
,
and
make
them
sancy
that
Amber
is
the
produce
of
that
Animal
.
Whereas
as
much
reason
is
there
for
every
sort
of
Fish
,
who
eats
thereof
,
and
may
discover
the
same
if
taken
in
due
time
:
Wherefore
since
we
justly
may
not
ascribe
it
to
one
more
than
another
,
I
rather
conclude
it
as
before
suggested
from
no
Animal
but
such
a
like
marine
Plant
placed
by
divine
bounty
and
wise
provision
for
the
relief
of
poisoned
Fish
originally
,
and
thence
to
be
brought
to
our
more
happy
knowledge
and
use
,
and
to
the
singular
benefit
of
the
Creation
,
in
which
blessed
Concord
all
things
naturally
most
sweetly
harmonize
,
singing
an
universal
Te
Deum
,
wherein
may
I
but
bear
an
agreeable
part
I
have
my
end
.
FINIS
.