So long that we
had thirty at a time sick of this _calenture_, which attacked our men,
either by reason of the sudden change from cold to heat, or by reason of
brackish water which had been taken in by our pinnace, through the sloth
of their men in the mouth of the river, not rowing further in where the
water was good.
Among the rest, JOSEPH DRAKE, another of his brethren, died in our
Captain's arms, of the same disease: of which, that the cause might
be the better discerned, and consequently remedied, to the relief of
others, by our Captain's appointment he was ripped open by the surgeon,
who found his liver swollen, his heart as it were sodden, and his guts
all fair. This was the first and last experiment that our Captain made
of anatomy in this voyage.
The Surgeon that cut him open, over-lived him not past four days,
although he was not touched with that sickness, of which he had been
recovered about a month before: but only of an over-bold practice which
he would needs make upon himself, by receiving an over-strong purgation
of his own device, after which taken, he never spake; nor his Boy
recovered the health which he lost by tasting it, till he saw England.
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