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—Servant to Lieutenant Collonel Lutherel, was taken ill on board the Dutchess, in the beginning of August. When I saw him he had had six stools in one hour that morn∣ing; he immediately had the purge, and in the evening the Bolus, and recovered.
I will not trouble you with more instances, since these are sufficient to demonstrate how powerful that me∣dicin
is, and of how great use it may be in those Countries where this disease is epidemical; and destroys so many thousands, as it has done in all the Armies and Navies in Europe, since the beginning of the present war.
In the next place I proceed to the Cure of Scurveys, which, I bless God for it, are not so frequent as people imagin, and these that are truly Scorbutical, recover better in three days ashore, than in three thousand on board, tho very many recovering imperfectly of their Fe∣vers and continuing weak, are always said to have the Scurvey, and this might even be pretended with a little more care, and therefore I will say no more on this subject; and the mistaken Scurvy, or Melancholia Hypochondriaca shall have its place among our interfering Diseases, which I now begin to account for.