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 XIII.

Joshua Manning was taken ill the latter end of July on board the Dutchess, of a pain in his head, & bones, and was very weak of a sudden; his pulse was depress'd, he was costive and had no appetite.

On Friday 24th, Mr Birkly, who is a very expert and knowing Surgeon, let him twelve ounces of blood; next morning he took 5 gr. of Tartarum Emeticum, which vomited him four times, and made him go twice to stool▪ That evening he took ℥ss of Syrup of white Poppies; and on Sunday the 26th the medicin, which made him sweat from eight in the morning till six in the evening, with so good success, that next day about noon he sat up in his Cabin, and in a day or two when I came on board, I found him walking upon the Deck.