'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.' [‎505] (558/562)

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f ff V1 p.: . Few of them run a great length j moft of them ]a(l not above feven or
^ ni jylir,; T 5 / w arnve at fourteen, and fome were terminated in five n-av
AlslJ a ver y few but ver y vlol ™t m three days: what feemed m ml r '
^ ruofi?^ saa,-"-
W ffi™ notwithftanding th.s confequence, (which was not however very frequent)
«)«■ I always preferred a gradual refolution of the Fever, when critLl to "he
nfque which too often attends an imperfeft crifis. After thefe fevers I ufrH
to purge the patient at leaft twice, with the
adding fome drops of the elixir of vitriol in each dofe. Sometimes! inS
of a decodion of bitters, I ordered an mfufion of them in white wine. By
i 1 ,, m 5 , judged that the patient was not fo liable to a fubfeouenr
ig die kits, ml in Intermittent, but I found that even this did not abfolutely prevent it With
» k re g a ^ t0 where the pulfe was llrong and full, I rarely or never made
my intemis vq ufe of them, on account of a fimple delirium in thefe Fevers-, but when the
applied them and Where nerV0US twitchin S s or coma fupervened, I always
i the ftomacl, eitkr
iftomach, orperkps There is like wife to be met with at Gombroon a Low Fever, attended with
fe/wJ; ItWbre great depreffion of the fpirits, wherein bliftering is abfolutely neceflary;
I could diffolve ^ 1S ^ take to be what is called in Rut ope the Nervous Fever.
'liichinconvtnieocics,
or fpirit of vitriol,
imon drink, Orange-
theiaft isfoyodic
ittofiagatGffllw,
hat degree I ttaigk
mlfions or teas, to
from
Blifters in general are more advantageoufly ufed in periodical fevers,
whether mild or putrid, than in thofe fevers which are continual.
For nervous fymptoms, Sal Succinic Tintl. Caftor. Rujf. and other warm
medicines, become neceflary.
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Tvitriol; to' Baftwd Peripneumony at Gombroon, requires ftrong blifters, as well
rl[ 0 u is tkf as ever y where e ^ e > and bleeding in proportion to the patient's ftrength once
5 ull f.:V |p [£ , in fhe beginning, I found for the moft part was neceflary, with a diluting
toic regimen. Balfamics, efpecially of the heating kind, do often more harm
lihid than g ood - 1 have Sometimes ufed a little of the Oxyme/ Sciliticum with
lore to be pf 0 ""' 1 -fuccefs.
. ^ While I was at Gombroon, there were none of the Morhi acuti fehriles
jiftli€' eve ' which could be called Epidemics, and as fporadic they obferved their ufual
fevtrs in ^ . tenour.
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^ ds . The Small-pox is by the country people, generally fpeaking, reckoned
epidemic, and fatal, and obferved to return among them about once in
feven years j but I had not a patient in that diforder all the time I was
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