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 ...

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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 ...
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Cockburn, W. (William), 1669-1739.
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London :: Printed for Hugh Newman ...,
1697.
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Medicine, Naval -- England.
Sailors -- England -- Medical care.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33551.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

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Observation XXII.

At the same time I saw Edward Mc Kaffrey, who had return'd from the Streights in that Ship, and was put ashore for his illness, but to no purpose; he took this purge on the 10th of June.

℞ Pulver. radic. jalap. cortic. cinam. subtil. pulverat. an ℈j. M. ac capiat cum regimine.

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He had ten stools that day, and in the evening took the powder made up with a little of the Conserve of pale Roses, and Syrup of White Poppies into a Bolus, it kept him from going to stool that night, but he having three or four stools next day, and being a little grip'd he had a Clyster that day, and in the evening the Powder made up with Conserve of Red Roses, and recover'd per∣fectly.

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