'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎445] (498/562)

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ieafon, it will fufficiently account for the number of my icorbutic patients
being very trifling, in comparifon of thofe who were afflifled with bilious
complaints.
At Bomhay, between the 10th of November 1755, and the 27th of April
®75^> we received into the holpital from the whole fcjuadron 1334 patients t
of whom 514 were in fcurvies, and fcorbutic fluxes. The reft were dif-
eafed with various hepatic complaints, common diforders, or cafes of
furgery. Here it is worthy of remark, that this was the winter feafon,
when the fcurvy again became the predominant diftemper among us.
On the Coromandel coaft, betweeQ April 1756, and the 12th of ORoher
following, we received into the hofpital from all the ftiips 847 patientSi
of whom 132 were in fcurvies, 108 in bilious fevers, 163 in bilious
fluxes, and 223 in bilious obftruflions. The remaining 221 were down
in various diforders, but even in moft of thefe, the bile was predominant.
A very few chirurgical and venereal complaints are to be excepted.—This
again was the fummer feafon, and we fee plainly, that bilious diforders were
by much the moft prevalent during this period.
On board the Proteftor an occafional hofpital (hip in Bengal river, and
at the hofpital at Calcutta, between the 25th of December 1756, and the
8th of February 1757, we received 455 patients from the king's fhips, of
whom 72 were in the worft ftage of the fcurvy, 27 in convulfions of
the bowels from a fcorbutic cafe, co-operating probably with the muddy
water of the river; 12 in putrid fevers, and the remaining 104 were ill of
various diforders, all of which, except a few cafes of furgery, partook of
the fcurvy. Out of the whole number received into the hofpital here, I find,
that at the clofe of the firft quarterly account, we buried 27 men: a par
ticular mention of the number of the dead, may be proper to exhibit a com
parative view of the mortality attending the difeafes of the fquadron in
Bengal^ and our other fettlements in India, Here my former obfervation re-
fpe&ng the difference of feafons, once more holds good, for thefe being the
winter months, the fcorbutic diforders greatly increafed, while thofe of the
bilious kind decreafed in the fame proportion. I muft add, that the fqua
dron juft before had a long and fatiguing paflage of feven weeks from the
Coromandel zoiSk \o the x'wtx ot Bengal', which doubtlefs was an additional
reafon why the fcurvy fo greatly prevailed at this time.
At Calcutta, between the 8th of February 1757 and the 7th of Auguft
following, we received into the hofpital 1140 patients, of whom 54 were
ill in fcurvies, 302 in bilious fevers, 109 in intermittents, 16 in meafles,
32 in bilious and bloody fluxes, 56 in bilious cholics, 21 in venereal com
plaints; and 155 were chirurgical cafes. Out of the whole number we
buried 52 men. It is neceflary here to obferve, that much the greater
part of this time, the weather was exceedingly hot and dry j confequently,
during