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 1, 2024.
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descriptionPage 139
Observation XLI.
George Jones, of a thick habit of
Body, and about twenty eight years
of Age, was troubled with a Drop∣sie,
for a whole year, his Legs and
Belly swell'd prodigiously; but
there were no signs of any Water
contain'd in the cavity of the Ab∣domen;
he had a difficulty of breath∣ing,
and his Pulse was weak.
His Pulse and shortness of breath,
gave me but small hopes of his re∣covery;
because, this more especi∣ally
proceeds from the Mediastinum
and Lungs, being too much crouded
by an overgrown Liver, which is
very often Schirrous or full of pu∣rulent
matter, and so past our reco∣vering;
yet having declar'd the
danger he was in, to those that
were about him; I prescrib'd him
the following Med'cins to be taken
in that order as I mention them here∣after.
descriptionPage 140
℞ elixir. proprietat. ʒss. spirit.
C. C. gut. xx. M. ac Capiat. gut. xv.
bis in die in pocul. vini cujuslibet me∣rosioris.
This Clyster, after an hour, came
off, with a deal of nasty slimy
stuff, and made him void great
quantities of Urin; by which he
was mightily reviv'd; yet, on the
fifth day after the begining of these
Med'cins he died. The day before
his Death, he had such a violent
pain in his Side and shortness of
breath, that he could not be easie
any way he lay; 'till about ten
hours before he died, his pain va∣nish'd,
tho' his difficulty in breath∣ing
encreas'd, and he always said
that he found something break with∣in
him; which was not improba∣ble,
and it might be his Imposthu∣mated
Liver; tho' I can do no more
descriptionPage 141
more but suspect so, since I was not
there when he died, and the Sur∣geon
did not give himself half an
hours trouble for my satisfacti∣on.
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