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  • Etiquetas: Medicina

The Achiotte hath a piercing, attenuating quality, as appeareth by the common practice of the Physicians of the India’s, experienced daily in the effects of it

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This Cacao, though, as every Simple, it contains the Quality of the four Elements, yet in the common Opinion Physicians, it is held to be cold and dry

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“a Cup of Chocolatte well confectioned comforts and strengthens the Stomach.”

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The Dropsy is a general Distemper on this Coast, and the Natives say, that the best Remedy they can find for it, is the Stone or Cod of an Allegator (of which they have four, one near each Leg, within the Flesh) pulverized and drunk in Water : This…

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The Jesuits-powder, which is the pounded bark of a species of fresh water mangle of Mexico, is a remedy for some fevers peculiar to America, which are occasioned by damp and hot situations

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The most common diseases of the hot countries are intermittent fevers, spasms, and consumptions; and in the port of Vera Cruz, within these few years, the black vomiting: in other parts, catarrhs, fluxes, pleurisies, and acute fevers; and in the…

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The Nigua or Chegoe, called in other countries Pique, is an exceeding small insect, not very unlike the flea, which, in some hot countries is bred in the dust. It fixes upon the feet, and breaking insensibly the cuticle, it nestles betwixt that and…

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When the Natives are swept away by the Plague in vast Numbers, the Europeans usually escape; which we were apt to ascribe to the good liquor we drink, the Natives having scarce any other Beverage than Water. But this cannot be the Reason of escaping…

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In general, the stomach is empty at the end of the seventh hour after eating; and we judge of the emptiness of the stomach from the return of hunger: the Mexicans digest more rapidly, for they are in danger of fainting if they fast more than three…

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Cette matière qu´on emploie pour les teintures rouges , ne se recueille que dans le Mexique , d´où on nous l´apporte.

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Comme la cochenille de Pologne ne fournit que la cinquième partie de la teinture de celle du Mexique , que par conséquent elle revient beaucoup plus cher, on ne s´en sert presque plus, & le commerce de cette drogue est extrêmement tombé.

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Les médicins du Mexique en font une tifanne à leurs malades: c´est leur meilleur remède contre les maladies aiguës.

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