"رحلة من إنجلترا إلى الهند في سنة ١٧٥٤ وسرد تاريخي لعمليات الأسطول والجيش في الهند، تحت قيادة الفريق واتسون والعقيد كلايف، في السنوات ١٧٥٥، ١٧٥٦، ١٧٥٧ ... ورحلة أيضًا من بلاد فارس إلى إنجلترا من طريق غير معتاد. مع ملحق يحتوي على تقرير عن الأمراض المتفشية في سرب الفريق واتسون، إلخ" [‎١‎٧‎٧] (٥٦٢/٢١٤)

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In the morning of the T4th, he was almoft free of complaint j his fkin
was temperate, and his pulfe more regular and itrong. He defired me to
read fome letters, which were juft then brought to him in a packet from
governor Pigot. They related chiefly to the condudt of Admiral Byng,
and the changes which had happened in the miniftry: he refleded, and
reafoned much on the uncertain bafis on which an officer's charader (lands,
and concluded with obferving how much more hazardous it was for him to
err on the cautious, than the defperate fide. He afterwards ordered me
to go to the hofpital *, and fend out Mr. Bevis to be with him in my ab-
lence. This gentleman had been furgeon of the Blaze, but was now one of
my afllftants, and enjoyed a great fliare of the admiral's favour.—With the
heat of the day Mr. JVatfon grew again very hot, but in the evening I had the
pleafure to find him cool and temperate, and much better in every refped.
1 repeated again the clyfter, and obferving a great deal of bile to come
away in his ftools, and that his eyes were a little yellow •, to the faline
draughts (of which he took one every two hours) I added fix grains of
rhubarb, with a view of increafing the number of his ftools, and by that
way carrying off the bile. Acidulated gruels, chicken-water, and whey,
were his food.
I vifited him early the next morning; Mr. Bevis informed me of the ad
miral's having had a good night; and Mr. IVatfon himfelf added, that he was
almoft well. I thought fo too, and in great fpirits left him to return to the
hofpital, leaving direSions with Mr. Bevis to purfue the fame courfe of medi
cines, not doubting but that a few more evacuations by ftool, and the gentle
perfpiration he was then in, would by the evening quite free him from all com
plaints. But this was the moft fultry day 1 ever experienced in India \ not a
breath of air was there for many hours •, both man and beaft, and the very
fowls of the air, fo fenfibly felt it, that fome of each fpecies fell down dead.
My deareft friend Admiral JVatfon, I may truly fay, loft his life by it.
At 11 o'clock he complained much of excefTive heat, and the want of
cool air •, and though every door and window in the houfe were thrown
wide open, he had no relief. His heat now increafed, his pulfe became
feeble, and his head confufed. Mr. Bevis about noon fent me an account of
this alarming change. I hurried away to his houfe, carrying with me three
blifters, one for the back, and two for the arms, which I put on imme
diately. I repeated the clyfter, and with the approbation of Mr. Thomas^
and one of the moft experienced praditioners in the country, I gave him a
proper quantity of Dr. James's, powders. It operated well by gentle vomiting
and purging, and brought away a great quantity of bile. His head however
ftill grew worfe, and a Qeepinefs followed •, a blifter was then applied to the
* In the latter part of July and the beginning of Auguft, ficknefs increafed fo much among us»
that upwards of 600 men were fent to the hofpital. Their diforders-were chiefly putrid fevers,
huxes, 15c.
A a head.