Volume 3

Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen ... / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Thomas Trotter
Date:
1804
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Credit: Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen ... / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s¢ meat and vegetables, prior to which having been *¢ Jong accuftomed to a falt diet. This muft pro- <* duce a confiderable change, and a difpofition to « ulcerate, which, as far as I know, has not been “« hitherto accounted for. J do notremember that «© j¢ was looked upon in the Mediterranean as con- *¢-tagious. From the debility conftantly enfuing, I <¢ was afraid to ufe general bleeding, recommended << by you, nor did ] venture on cupping, although « T think it might be often ufeful, yet I have feen “¢ many: cafes fpread with but very little inflamma- * tion attending them. What I have had moftly «in view was to keep a conftant drain from the «¢ inteftines, and a determination to the fkin, to «¢ moderate the fever ; after the gangrene is form- ** ed, the patient requires the moft generous diet. © You well know how much the furgeons in the «| navy are in want of frefh meat, port wine, and E *¢ porter, to give their fick: I with your power s¢ was-equal to your will to remedy this evil,” tay *~ rr The fubfequent letter continues the hiftory of this ulcer in the Amethyft, from which may be drawn fome important facts in favour of the opinion which I have long entertained of its caufes, «STR, on. His Majefty’s Ship Amethyft, © Plymouth Sound, Sept. igth, 1801, © On the morning of the 27th of April laft, I ** Jeft the Amethyft at four o’clock, with a ftatement of the fhip’s company’s health, and to procure ‘ your approbation to fend four men to the hofpi- *< tal. You can well imagine my difappointment “on returning on board to find that the thip was tg A