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 XVII.

Michael Sunderland, was taken th•• latter end of April, with a coldne•••• and trembling after dinner, his Puls•• was depress'd, he had a great desi•• to vomit, his Lips and ••ace wer•• very pale, and he had no appetit•• for his victuals; in an hour or tw•• after he became very warm, and wa•• hot for more than an hour, his Puls•• was very quick, and he sweat a•• hour more, which ended 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fit.

On the first of May, in the morn∣ing, he took five grains of Tartar•••• Emeticum, which vomited him fo•••• times, and gave him two stools about eleven in the forenoon his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 returne••▪ but it was nothing so seve•••• as his 〈◊〉〈◊〉; after he had swea•• and all was over in pretty good o••∣der, he began to take the Jesui•• powder in this form.

℞ Pulver. cortic. chin. chin. ℥j. cons. rosar. rub. ʒvj. syr. fl. caryophill. q. s. ut f. electuar. Cujus capiat magnitudinem nucis moschatae majoris tertia quaque hora, superbibendo vin. hispanic. aut Canarin. poculum, after which his fit did not return; yet to prevent a relapse, I prescrib'd him the following Tin∣cture.

℞ rad. gentian. ℥j. helen. aristol. ro∣tund. an ℥ss. Zedoar. ʒij. summitat cent. min. flor. chamom. an M. j. cortic. au∣rant. ℥ss. baccar. Juinper. ℥ij. Pptis. s. a. affunde vin hispanic. lbij. ac postquam fuerint per biduum in infusione, bibat cochl. iv▪ bis in die.

Having drank this ••or some time, he began to recover his colour, which is always a certain sign that the Patient is out of danger of a relapse; yet he infus'd the medicins a second time, and did very well.