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 XXVIII.

T. ••—who had been ill of a long time, of a difficulty of Breath∣ing, of that sort that's call'd an Asthma, according to an Ancient verse,

Disnia se celat, canit Asma malumque revelat, Ortonia quoque morbo vexatur utro∣que.

His Pulse was slower than usually, he had no Appetite, and was of a Ca∣chectical disposition.

Now, since an Influx of the Ani∣mal Spirits into the Muscles of the Thorax, in its proper disposition, as that of the Lungs, Air and Blood are absolutely necessary in a natural res∣piration; so any one or more of these, or all together being viciated will occasion a difficulty of Breath∣ing, which are more particularly to be accounted for by those that write, on purpose, upon that Subject; in this case, his thicker Blood not being able to pass quickly enough through

his Lungs did produce this Asthma; and therefore being first call'd to him while he was in a very severe Fit, I order'd him immediately to be let twelve Ounces of Blood; next Morn∣ing which was the 25 of June, he took gr. vj. of Tartar. Emetic. which produced the desired effect; and the day after he took this purge.

℞ resin. jalapp. gr. x. mercur. d. gr. viij. trochisc. Alhand. gr. ij. gum. am∣moniac. solut. ac parum inspissat. q. s. ut f. pil. N^o. v. Quas capiat multo mane cum regimine.

After he had taken these Pills, he began this Tincture, which I had order'd to be prepar'd in the mean time.

℞ rad. gentian. ℥ij. summitat. hyssop. puleg. centaur. min. M. j. baccar. ju∣niper. ℥ij. croc. Anglic. in pet. ligat. ʒj. ••illeped. viv. ac mundat. N^o. xl. prepa∣ratis s. ••. a••••und, vin Xeresens. lbij. ac post quam fuerint per biduum in in∣fusione, bibat cochl. v. bis in die.

He found himself in less than a Month, a great deal easier than he had been for a year before, and I hope he has e're now recover'd his perfect Health.