A continuation of the account of the nature causes, symptoms and cure of the distempers that are incident to seafaring people illustrated with some remarkable instances of the sicknesses of the fleet during the last summer, historically related : to which is prefix'd an essay concerning the quantity of blood that is to be evacuated in fevers : being the third part of the work / by William Cockburn ...

Observation IV.

Francis Marpole, aged twenty six years, whose natural pulse beats about sixty in one minute, was taken ill, on board the Edgar, April the 29th, of a pain in his head, and bones; he was weak, had no appetite to his victuals; his pulse beat but 45 in a minute, and he was very cold; The next day after, he was let blood, his pulse was more frequent, and even exceeded its natural number; he was very hot, and restless, had a great drought, and could not sleep.

On the 30th he was let blood in his right arm to the quantity of ten

ounces, and next day took 5 grains of the vomiting Tartar; and being treated as people ordinarily are, after they have taken a vomit, it wrought six times, and gave him seven stools. Next day he began the following powder.

℞ oc. 69 ppt. ʒi. pulv. fl. chamom. ℈ij. sal. prunel. ʒij. M. ac f. dos. ix. ut capiat unam ter in die.

His ordinary drink, all the time he was taking these powders, was Barly decoction sharpened with Vine∣gar, of which he drank as much and as often as he pleased. On the 4th of May he took this purge.

℞ pulv. Cornachin. ʒss. tartar. vitriolo gr. vii. M. ac capiat mane cum regi∣mine.

This purg'd him seven times, and he was very easy thereafter. Only I must tell you, that all the time he was taking the powders he was restless, and did not sleep in the night, till by applying the Oxycrate, he was very 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and recovered without any o∣ther help than drinking half a pint of the altering bitter decoction every morning, for four mornings.