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 VI.

Edward Powis, a man about twenty years of age, and never at Sea before this Summer, was taken ill on board the Edgar, the twelfth of May, of a Coldness, want of Strength, and appetite for his victuals, this pulse was low and depress'd, he complain'd of violent pains in his head, back, and bones: In a day or two his pains went off, his pulse was high, he was very hot and had a great drought.

On the 13th he was let twelve ounces of blood, and next day took four grains of emetick Tartar, and vomited 6 times, and went thrice to stool. I always use to give them vo∣mits in the beginning, for they miti∣gate all the Symptoms through the whole progress of the sickness, and the Patients are more easily mana∣ged: on the fifteenth he began to take these powders.

℞. oc. 69 ppt. ʒj. sal. absynth. pulv. s••. chamom. an. ℈ij. rad. serpentar. virginian pulverat. ʒss. M. f. pulv. divid. in tres p•• a. Capiat omnes die crastino tribus vicibus.

The day after, he drunk this pur∣gative.

℞. tamarind. ℥ss. hord. mund. M. s••. Coq. ad hord. crepitur. in s. q. aq. font. Colatur. ℥iv. affund. sol. senn. ℥ss. semin•• aris. contus ʒss. crem. tartar. ℈j. mane∣ant per noctem in infusione, maneque li∣quori colato add. syr de rham. ʒi. M. ac•• capiat cum regimine,

This purg'd him eight times, and having applied the Linnen dipt in Oxycrat, he slept all night, and re∣cover'd daily. His Drink at the time of his sickness was as much of the Barley Decoction sharpened with Vinegar as he would; and half a pint of the decoctum amarum for four days after his Fever was gone off; after which he began to recover.