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A33550	An account of the nature, causes, symptoms, and cure of the distempers that are incident to seafaring people with observations on the diet of the sea-men in His Majesty's navy : illustrated with some remarkable instances of the sickness of the fleet during the last summer, historically related / by W.C.	Cockburn, W. (William), 1669-1739.	1696 (1696)	Wing C4815; ESTC R24229	70,196	195

very ill times and too great quantities and no doubt there 's been abundance kill'd so but for all that should we leave off the use of these Medicins no surely and they will prove useful and noble Medicins in good hands But why may not our Author try what a decoction of the Powder he uses for Clysters upon certain occasions can do to shun this inconvenience of the Powder especially since our learned Collegue Dr. Morton had published some two years before this Author wrote his Book such a decoction for this very end which would have prevented most misfortunes from that hand when we know not this fit time to give a Vomit Then for the second inconvenience 't is much of the same kind and if any one will consider the proof I brought for the way how the Bark had its effect and the Corollary I deduced from it shall not be very much puzzl'd to find out that 't is only those that are of thin habits of body and whose blood is thin easily rarify'd and incline to be hectical that find this burning Heat our Author assigns and after they have taken the pure powder and I dare appeal to himself or any man of practice if ever they found this accident but in these circumstances and a wise Physician can easily provide against that as I have endeavoured in part by giving the Cortex as in my 9th Observation but to see what a miserable shift he takes to weather this difficulty is wonderful from what he says in the 32 page and if he had done any thing he should first told us what the ferment of the Fever is he talks of in the 39 page how the parts and what parts are fittest to bring it under and lastly what vessels these are that have their mouths open into the Intestins none of these things he has told us any thing of yet they were necessary to be known and of all things in the world I doubt most of his certainty in the citation from the 32 page and would have thought the gross parts of any body the least capable to produce heat and to guide all this right he tells us that Nature keeps it just so long and not one half second longer than was necessary to separate those sanative parts from its grosser hot parts this is indeed wonderful but she that can do all this why did she put him to the trouble of contriving Syrup of White Poppies to cause some to keep their Clysters longer and purging Clysters to help others off with theirs I 'le help him out for once and remember him that Nature 's of the she-kind and he 's an old man But of this Banter too much The rest of his Citations are about the way of giving it which I have nothing to do with here tho I thought fit to shew them if any one be for them and all the rest may be comprehended in this that they may be better given his way because as he says the Bark is given in substance and in a greater quantity And first I believe all the Physitians in France at least all or most here give it in substance and have done these thirty y●●●s as well as Helvetius and in a way too that our six Drachms must turn to a greater account than his three ounces and allow him ten more and this we shall make very plain by considering that betwixt the lower end of the Duodenum to the end of the Ileon there are infinite numbers of Lacteal Vessels to be seen whereby this Powder its Tincture made in the Stomach and other parts may be very easily carry'd into the blood and by which is carry'd of one substance and another at least 3 4 5 pounds in a day and so may be a very good way for 3 drachms ℥ ss ʒvi or ℥ j of this Powder however digested and prepared in a clean Stomach whereas in his way all the Lacteals that are said to be there are supposed upon ill made experiments and not one to be seen and so I think our six drachms can produce more powerful effects than his thirteen ounces we have allow'd him but suppose all the Colon were as full of Milky-Vessels as the Milky-way is full of Stars which we see he ●ust not pretend to yet I 'm in the opinion he could not much better himself for his Clysters could get no great length which will be very evident to any one that will bring into his thoughts or lay before his eyes the Guts in their natural posture and any one with a Clyster-Syringe impelling the Liquor I say if he considers this he shall have no great difficulty to agree to my assertion for first if they were supposed full then 't is evident the resistance of the Excrements were to be accounted for and perhaps this would do the business but now we 'll suppose them perfectly empty and their sides flaccid as we see them at that time then upon the one hand let us remember that the motion they have is from the Stomach downward and that they are ten●ile then next that the Colon where it joins the Straight Gut lyes not rectum with the cavity of the Straight Gut but cuts it at oblique angles and upon the other hand all the force this impell'd liquor has is only by the compressing the sides of a Bladder or a more valid propulsion by the Syringe and therefore passing the small resistance from the motion of the Guts there 's first so much motion lost by raising the sides of the Straight Gut whereinto it may be propell'd without any other but so soon as it comes to the joining of the Colon it must reflect at every section of this Gut and the reflection too is to be made upon a soft tensil body which is more than enough to overcome a ten times greater force than can be conceiv'd to be given to this liquor by the propulsion by the Syringe And therefore since the Straight Gut has no lacteals and the Colon were supposed to have yet his Clysters not going any length there could turn to no great account at least not the twentieth part very modestly speaking as the other way But next for the convenience of this Practice I think 't is the most inconvenient could have been contriv'd for who can bear fifteen Clystering days and to take about twenty four Clysters in that time and then as many in case of a Relapse this is not only one of the most troublesom Practices but the most expensive that can be by the Jesuits Powder for supposing an Apothecary should let us have them at Crowns apiece this is no less than 12 l. for these 48 Clysters besides other Medicins which is a great deal too much for the most that grudge 4ss and a Crown for an ounce of the Powder which always cures them with the help of such a tincture I have spoke of in my Observations and therefore by this time 't is plain that Helvetius's

his own Gauger wherein not only the Artist is shown a more ready and exact Method of Gauging than any hitherto extant But the most Ignorant who can but read English and tell twenty in Figures is taught to find the Content of any sort of Cask or Vessel either full or in part full and to know if they be right siz'd Also What a Pipe Hogshead c. amounts to at the common rate and measure they buy or fell at With several useful Tables to know the Content of any Vessel by Likewise a Table shewing the Price of any Commodity from one pound to an hundred weight and the contrary To which is added the true Art of Brewing Beer Ale Mum of Fining Preserving and Bottling Brew'd Liquors of making the most common Physical Ales now in use of making several fine English Wines The Vintners Art of Fining Curing Preserving all sorts of Wines of making Artificial Wines Distilling of Brandy and Spirits from Malt Malasses c. Together with the compleat Coffee-Man teaching how to make Coffee Tea Chocolate Content and the Richest Finest Cordials c. Of great use for common Brewers Victuallers Vintners Wine-Coopers Distillers Strong water-men Coffeemen and all other Traders Twelves price 1 s. P. Ovidij Nasonis Metamorphosem Libri XV. Interpretatione notis Illustravit Daniel Crispinus Helvetius ad usum Serenissimi Delphini Recensuit Joh. Freind Aedis Christi Alumn 80. Romae Antiquae Notitiae Or the Antiquities of Rome in 2 parts 1. A short History of the Rise Progress and Decay of the Commonwealth 2. A description of the City an account of the Religion Civil Government and Art of War with the remarkable Customs and Ceremonies publick and private with Copper Cuts of the principal Buildings c. To which are perfix'd two Essays Concerning the Roman Learning and the Roman Education By Basil Kennett of C. C. C. Oxon Dedicated to his Highness the Duke of Gloucester 80. FINIS Tractatum hunc cui Titulus An Account of the Nature Causes Symptoms and Cure of those Distempers that are incident to Sea-●aring People c. dignum judicamus qui imprimatur Samuel Collins Praeses Tho. Burwell Rich. Torlesse Gul. Dawes Tho. Gill Censores Datum in Comitiis Censoriis ex Aedibus Collegii Febr. 21. 1695. The usefulness of this Undertaking It s order Their Victuals The consequence of this victualling Is first th●● Scurvy With an extraordinary weakness And an unequal Pulse Their Gums inflam'd Rotten and stinking And Itching The Scurvy and Melanchol Hypochon are not the same Their Bread Their Burgoo Their Pease Their Lodging The Symptoms of our Fevers An Hypothesis The weight or heaviness Less Activity Sudden Weakness Coldness over the whole body A Coldness in all the extremities Except the Brain ●● Pain As when one is beat A weak Pulse A Pulse that 's rare And depressed A Want of Appetite And Costiveness Sometime● a Sleepiness They are very warm Their Pulse great and strong They are restless And very dry Their Tongue is rough And black The Respiration difficult Their Breath's like fire They are delirious and cannot sleep They end in Death Or the sickness cur'd by Sweating Hemor Looseness The Vindication of the Hypothesis Diarrhea's may be They feel a Coldness after Dinner Their Lips are pale They ●emble Their Pulse is weak They may be insens●ble the external senses being right Their Body like a Corpse A great Drought In place of Death comes warmth and heat And ends in sweating The Pulse stronger and more frequent They have beating in their head A great Drought The Pulse natural for some time It recurrs every day every third or fourth c. It ends sometimes in death and that in the Return Their Life as to what concerns their temper c. The diseases got nearer or c. Why I have neglected the common stories of Poyson c. Why Poyson Why the Chymical Principles Why Acid and Alkali Observ I. Hints for Curing Fevers The reason of unsuccessful practice What our thoughts are about the former intimations What of Bleeding Sweating and Purging Observ 2. Observ 3. Observ 4. Observ 5 ●●●erv 6. Observ 7. Observ 8. The General Cure observ 9. Obser 10● Places marked from this Author's Book p. 4. Obser 11. The Scurvy Obser 12. Obser 13. Obser 14. 4. Obser 15. Obser 16. Obser 17. Obser 18. Obser 19.