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 XV.

Thomas Munden, a Kinsman of Cap∣tain Munden's, who commands the London, was taken ill, on Tuesday, July 28th at night, of a sickness in his Stomach, an exquisit pain in his Head, his Bones, and all his Joints; his pulse was a great deal lower than naturally, and he had no desire to eat.

On Wednesday he was let blood; next day, had a Vomit, and the third, the Medicine; which produc'd a ve∣ry good effect, to the satisfaction of us all. On Saturday he was very hun∣gry, but I would allow him nothing but Water-gruel; and on Sunday he took Physick, and recover'd very fast every day.

At the same time one of Mr Chap∣man's Mates was ill, was treated after the same way, and recover'd as soon, tho not quite so well, being a little warmer by the heat of the Cock-pit where he lay; so mischievous is the least extraordinary warmth in Fevers, tho it has not hitherto been so well lookt into, but rather encouragd.

And now, since I have given you•• these 4 instances of this easy way o•• Cure, I shall only add, that all the Experiments I have had occasion to make of this method, have prov'd equally successful, so well may a•• practice be mended; and therefore I will not tire your patience with more histories of continu'd Fevers, but keeping to the order of my last Book•• I proceed to these that are intermitting••▪ In the mean time I must desire you to peruse with attention, the Theory in the first part, and the Indications in the second, of that last book, which are but the consequences of the former; for otherwise you can∣not understand the design of the pra∣ctice.