But finally Western medicine could do him no more good, and Morgan went to the black doctor the local slaves depended on for cures. He was given urine enemas and covered with clay plasters, but the treatment only gave him a persistent cough. He moved on to another.
Source:
Talty, Stephan. “Aftermath.” Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign. New York: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2007. 281. Print.
Further Reading:
Probably not, the more I look at it the more I think I'm just not familiar with medicinal practices of the times. "Urine enemas" is something I'm getting stuck on, I'm not sure how they expected this to work--something like a saltwater rinse?