This evening I renewed the medicine, which I had supposed did me good the day before—the tobacco steeped in rum; only I did not take so much as before, nor did I chew any of the leaf, or hold my head over the smoke; however, I was not so well the next day, which was the first of July, as I hoped I should have been; for I had a little spice of the cold fit, but it was not much.
Esa noche, renové el tratamiento al que le atribuí mi mejoría del día anterior, es decir, el tabaco macerado en ron, solo que no tomé tanta cantidad como la primera vez, ni mastiqué ninguna hoja, ni inhalé el humo. No obstante, al día siguiente, que era el primero de julio, no me sentí tan bien como esperaba y tuve algunos amagos de escalofríos, aunque no demasiado graves.