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Bodleian Library, MS Don. d.3. Not previously published.
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I have not Oviedos History, – but this passage occurs in his Relacion sumaria de la Historia Natural de las Indias. –
Cap. 77.
The chapter treats of the GuayaconGuaiacum officinale). The Spanish used an extract from the root to treat syphilis.many of xxx xxx many have died of it. Few of the Xtians who connect themselves with the female Indians escape –
but as I have said it is not so perilous – there as here – as well because this tree being fresh is more profitable & operates
better, as because the temperature of the earth is without cold, & helps the diseas such diseased persons better than
the air & constellations here.’
Oviedos larger work was written before this, but not published.both the passage from it as well as this, in the History of Medicine.
You have here the whole of this, literally rendered.
I remember a story in a miscellaneous book of Elizabeths time
If a man 250 years hence were to argue that the French Revolution existed an indefinite time before we now suppose it to have broken out, because we read of mobs in London, & sedition every where, – he would argue just like those who deny the American origin of Venereal disease – the facts that it was notoriously called either French or Neapolitan, & that it was common in the Islands, where Oviedo had lived, are decisive. It is not a thing to be claimed for his countrymen by any vanity. The single cases which seem to have occurred at an earlier period you can better account for than I. how far the description of cancers, scrofulous swellings & ulcers &c may explain them.
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And thus, Sir, have I replied to your Presidentships
We have been alarmed about the child – have blistered behind
her ears, & administered calomel.
I had news from Tom on the 11th of Feby when he wrote he had been on board the Amelia a month, in which time they had buried 60.Amelia was a 38-gun Hébé-class frigate of the French navy captured in 1796 and commissioned
into the British navy. On taking up his appointment on the Amelia, Thomas found the ship’s crew struck down by
fever.
You will sooner know when Madoc is published than I shall. My directions concerning copies have been sent to Longman some time, who will I suppose instruct ConstableEarl of Abergavenny, went down with his ship on the Shambles rocks off Portland Bill, on 5 February
1805.of this he is not able to think of or feel.