the first illness to which persons habituated to colder climates are subject on their arrival in the West Indies. This seasoning, unless they live very temperately, or are in a proper habit of body (though some people are unseasoned for many months), seldom suffers them to remain long before it makes its appearance in some mode or other; particularly if at first they expose themselves in a shower of rain, or too long in the sun, or in the night-air; or when the body is much heated, if they drink large draughts of cold liquors, or bathe in cold water; or use much exercise; or commit excess in drinking wine or spirits; or by heating the body and inflaming the blood; or by subjecting themselves to any cause that may suddenly check perspiration, which at first is generally excessive.

Some people, from a favourable state of body, have no seasoning. Thin people, and very young people, are most likely to escape it. Women generally do from their temperance, and perhaps their menstruation contributes to their security; indeed hot climates are favourable to the delicacy of their habits, and suitable to their modes of life. Some escape by great regularity of living; some by the breaking out of the rash, called the prickly heat; some by a great degree of perspiration; and some by observing a cooling regimen. The disorders are various that constitute this seasoning of new-comers as they are called; depending on age, constitution, and habit of body. But all seasoning diseases are of the inflammatory kind; and yield to antiphlogistic treatment proportioned to their violence. When all precaution to guard against sickness has failed, and prudence proved abortive to new-comers, they will have this comfort at least for their pains, that their disorders will seldom be severe or expensive, and will generally have a speedy termination; and that their seasoning, as it is emphatically called, will be removed by bleeding, a dose of salts, rest, and a cooling regimen.