CHAPTER XI

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SICKNESSES OF EARLY VOYAGES AND COLONIES.

Scurvy in the early voyages, north and south 579

The remarkable epidemic of Fever in Drake’s expedition of 1585-6 to the Spanish Main 585

Other instances of ship-fevers, flux, scurvy, &c. 590

Scurvy &c. in the East India Company’s ships: the treatment 599

Sickness of Virginian and New England voyages and colonies 609

Early West Indian epidemics, including the first of Yellow Fever--The Slave Trade 613

The epidemic of 1655-6 at the first planting of Jamaica 634

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