Catarrh,
AUe vilde.
Begavning.
where it grows very ftrong, • and is tailed • er-ichs-gfassir they ule it
as a pickle in the Printer §f$É^
' Catarrhs* and other difteriipers which! affe£t the head and
breaft, arid We called here k o v arid : kriiin/appear very frequent
dongthemoéft! in the fpring. ■h!Thöfe !rh,at don?t coirie out &tö.
the air every day;:! aiid therefore are the fooneft-fenfiMe* of the
ifcold, are moft afffided with thefc phlegmatic difortfesT but the
expe&oration caufed by this kóv is generally fervic’eable- to the
conftitution.
The common people, who are the feaft troubled with this
diftemper, drink four: whey as' warm is they can bear it,"'by
way of remedy or prefervative, which cuts and attenuates the vifcid
öbftruéÜng phlegm, and promdtes the difcharge'tefiiit.' 8
Landfarfoa is the name the pealantsgive a cfcrtain fever, which,
however, comes but feldom; it iscontagious and: epidemic,? from
whence it has its name. Mr, Luke Debesi, hrhis de&riptión--of
Faroe, compares it to thé diftemper which the foldiers are apt to
catch when they are encamped in damp places. It is malignant
and painful,
are cured by God’s blefling, arid the ftrength of-conftitution,; for
we know of no remedy for'it. ■
Allevilde is the name of i difeafe, which frizes the .patient at
firft with violent fhooting pains* which; move about from one
part of the body to another, like’’the arthrids! Vagf;.-and often
Iwèaks out into fores and ulcers. The fuperftitious peafants aferibe
tins to a fort of blaft which comes from the,fea,T or out of the
earth or m a i n ta in s , which according tojthejr, opinion, k -caufed
by witchcraft; and the remedy they make ufe of, .i|;as ablwd as
the imaginary caüfe of the diftemper. But thofe that are-wifer,
life tar-water, or the oil extracted from the raw liver of filh, and
apply it both internally and externally. . ■ .
Begavning, is the name of a kind of epileptic difeafe, but
feldom fo violent as in other countries, b The-, wqmen are moft
fubje<ft to it here in Bergen, from a fiappreflion of the menfes,
occalioned by the dampnefs of the air. Some pretend to lay that
' * On Hitland,
this difeafe which is contrafted there, by the lame manner of liviM, _foy«iiey eat fo
- much fait-filh that they are very fubjeft to the feurvy. Nature has furmfhed them
with plenty of feurvy-grafs j they have no phyficians or furgeons, neither have they
any o^cafiömfópffiëi^; London Magazine for June 1752, p. i/n .
Jt
it is>.prr!jÆnneg| ^hy ^ a ^ ider,-down.* . b e d s J p C j E h .
Bartholin%inhis g^pina Q ^ ^ ^ n ^ | t v,p a r .^ is tiQtjYthat
opinion, as I h&y^jjpfore ob^r^^ jin-,.tpQ. ^pfojption J the
eider-bird. uife >
, In they
hardly kn^y^ anything of ..tb^ddeafes, here
^he^ a j g ^ tHpfe. ■ .pb^ryed
before**
apy, part qf/^urapç^^ie , fe ^ nan d ^ e ^ ^ | | | .a r e f jike ypnri-
tilators, on channels. thri^pi|^C^. thff.
a-,furrent, .from i^ppe, ^end^ or
frefh apft ,jp Emotion.
rearkahlp MubtitV .ofo|tek^jj-, ,j«f
age there; without' ever^feviHg; experienced, what j^s^abeMfrçk.
In ,the4kft, h e à p îp ^ ^ ^ ^ iy c e
hafe^ed.'syith alpkgüp^ /<Jpyæ||j|ln j f e 'new MY
of, chdftiani^ .loll, -abî 4p
In .1 S§jfiH .the fam^contagpops . diftemper appeared afigfo^b^t
did n p t r^e’fo faf-abppt|| |çpm ^ ^ ^ |u rn t f ê ^ e p a l f find
rified thednfeâed-am ...What the reverend Mr. Spidbergobfieryes,
i®,-thp.tiqtter -.quoted abpv|^is,fyçp: w^en
the plague'faged here, it ’did hbt affèâ: Roraas, Quikne,,, or Mel-
•dalVeppperworks fQrtt,^^pifop.o.-Lts, aMt|pfe^©^yef|uy^ ( were
eorre<aedvby.,thp ftrong; fulphurepus .fmqaji and. yapou^-jthay4nr
eorporated^ with the mr,'. for. twe|vpjpp. fifteen, Edgl^'miles houndv
thofe- copper, works, .But „diforders,®f ffre lim^^ d 3 confump-;
tions are‘more,frequent .there,, than, frurfiefe ^ede^^||is^ea,iÿed .
probably, by the.fame fulphureous.vap.ouxs5l .apd.per^yis .affti^ted
with thofe diforders, finds themfel|es.mpch^dipvedvby,j;he^dg.mpi .
air which affeâs weak lun^s. left, than; that, tyhièh -is pîearerb, for
a dryj keen àir, is toot,pénèPating'ajadî fubtlp. %,tbekn à
I f ‘the tickets,‘called here theiEpglifti fipkqd^iiwith which-
children in otheriycounPies are much ;affli(ft.edi,^^ 4 erivfid' from’ a
damp and foggy air,Yâccoyding %^Mr. Haubenton’s'oppiipnY ;
• ig l* T] n>y a que deux oentfans, que cette maladie eft connue; elle a coniinenéé en
Angleterre, & de là elle a pafîë en France, en Hollande, ien Allemagne, &c. Des
célébrés médecins orit ern, que ie:iraishitisvpquv.oi.t être c aÆ p a r un air froid;&; nebu-
ieux, chargé de v ap eurs& d’exhalaiibns,.. &ç.' U ït» na’t. tdme ar. p. p |g |J