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VL Account of B O O K S. 
I. An Account of theNainrey Canfes^ Symptoms^ 
and Cute of the Difiempers that are incident 
to Seafaring People 5 tptth Obfer^ations on the 
Diet of the Seamen in His Majejly*j Na^yt, 
lUnJlrated with fome Remarkable In fiances of 
the Sickpeji of the Fleets dnring laU Sum- 
m^r^ HiftoricaUy related. By Willi am Coch^ 
bmn^ of the College of FhyfuianSj London^ 
and Phyfician to the Blexp Squadron of His 
Majefty's Fleet. London^ i6^6* m 
IN this Book there's given an Account from Sea- 
mens way of Living, their Viduals, and their Lodg- 
ing,- the Difeafes that more particularly follovs^ 
them, which the Author calls. The /landing Difeafes of 
the Sea. He tells us, That their Scurveys, which he 
defcribes particularly, come immediately from their 
fait Victuals, and an idle Life; and that truly Scurveys 
are not fo frequent as People generally imagine : He 
gives us an exaft Hiftory of the Symptoms ot a Scur- 
vey, and demonftrate,s their necclTity from fuch a way 
of living; fuppofing only the Circulation of the Blood, 
and the different Figures of the Veins and Arteries, 
as every body muft own they are. Then from their 
Life and Lodging he accounts for their Fevers : 
He fuppofes that they proceed from an Interruption 
of Perfpiration, and upon that Suppofrtion, and that 
the Blood has its Motion efpecially from the Con- 
traction of the Heart 1 he demonftrates the way how 
