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ftrbyed by other maladies, whereby we fliall be 

 enabled to judge more accurately what are the 

 real changes induced by that difeafe. 



To offer you any details upon this fub- 

 jedt would not only be premature, but foreign 

 to my prefent purpofe. Suffice it therefore to 

 know that we (hall avail ourfelves of the occa- 

 fions which may occur, and that in number 

 they promife infinitely to exceed our wiflies. 

 Among the late fufferers we have had the mif- 

 fortune to lofe our fuperintending cook, at the 

 hofpital. He was a man of peculiar ftrength, 

 voice, and appetite. The fick on board-fhip 

 ufed to complain that he ate up almoft the 

 whole of their food : when he fpake, his voice 

 was as the roaring of thunder ; and in point of 

 mufcular ftrength, he was quite Herculean. 

 The attack was fevere, and he quickly fell a 

 facrifice, experiencing all the inveterate fymp- 

 toms of the fever, with the exception only, of 

 the yellownefs of the (kin,- — that uncertain 

 mark from which the name of the difeafe has 

 been, erroneoufly, taken. The diforder was 

 early marked with uncommon reftlefsnefs and 

 anxiety, an indefcribable fenfation at the region 

 of the ftomach,and an almoft inceffant vomit- 



