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called the Upfal Fever^ from its having iDeen r<*- 

 markably epidemical in that city and neighbour- 

 hood. This difeafe was evidently of that clafs 

 which is called putrid^ and was much more 

 acute in fummer than in autumn. It was at- 

 tended with frequent and obftinate hemorrhages 

 from the nofe, early in the difeafe ; a quiet kind 

 of delirium ; trembling tongue twitching tendons ; 

 ieafnefs ; petechia and vi bices on the {kin. As 

 the heat declined, hemorrhages were not fo much 

 obferved , the diforder attacked with pain and laf- 

 Jitude of body, vertigo and pain in the head^ cough 

 and oppreffion of the breafl ; and was afterwards 

 attended with cardialgia^ naufea^ vomitings- turbid^ 

 and fometimes in the decline, bloody urine. Alfo 

 great profiration of ftrength, weak pulfe, and fub- 

 fultus tendinum^ were fymptoms of this fever ; and 

 many were feized in the beginning with violent 

 fiuxes. The Scurvy feems to have been attended 

 with no other than the ufual fymptoms. 



Our author appears to have been very folicitous 

 in his endeavours to find out the caufe of the ex- 

 treme prevalence of this difeafe in the fleet. In the 

 Scurvy^ befides the ufe of faked meats, he attri- 

 butes much to the waiit of fufficient exercife on 

 board the fliips ; and confirms the obfervations of 

 fome other writers, that the difeafe, independent 

 of regimen or diet, decreafed when the fleet was 

 out at fea, and confequently the fliips more agi* 

 tated by wind and waves, and the men more em- 

 ployed j and that it augmented when they were in 

 a ftate of inaftion in port. He condemns the ufe 



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