It has been found, after Icveral experiments, that nothing
i^s more falutary than to give the blacks who were attacked
with it three ounces of the juice of a fpecies of colocynti^
with almoft a fimilar dofe of a kind of oradte, known in the
idands by the name o( jargon. This drink is preceded by
a purgative, which coofifts of half a drachm of gumbooge,
diluted in milk, or in honey-water*

The yaws, which is the fecond diforder peculiar to ne^
groes, and which accompanies them from Africa to Ame*
rica, is contracted in. the birth, or by communication be^
tween the fexes* No age is free from it ; but it more par«^
ticularly attacks at the periods of infancy and youth. Old
people have feldom ftrength fufi&cient to fupport the long
aadi violent treatment which it r^^uires*



Si HISTOUT OF 5ETTLEMEKT8 AIO) TRIDE £$cl XT.
There are faid to be four fpecfcs of yaws. The yawi.
