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II. A ContinHation of the Account of the Nature^ 
CaufeSy Symptoms^ and Cure of the Dijiem- 
per f that are incident to Seafaring People. lU 
lujirated with fome Remarkable Inftanecs of 
the Sickpeffes of the Fleet ^ during laH Sum-^ 
mer^ Hijiori^ally Related. To which is pre- 
fix* dj An EJfay concerning the Quantity of 
Blood that is to beE'vacuated in Fevers i be- 
ing the Third Part of the Worh^ By William 
Coiikburny of the College of Phyjiciansy^ 
London^ Phyfician to the Blew Sqnadron of 
His Majefty's Fleet, and Fellow of the 
Royal Society. London i&^j. in ^'uo. 
T H E Continuation gives the Hiftory of his Ob- 
ftrvationsin 1696. He begins it with Eflay 
about the Quantities of Bleeding in Fevers ; and in the 
general, he proves that Authors have given us very 
i0iperfe<a Rules for Bleeding : He refutes thefe Rules 
particularly, and propofes better ways for our better 
underftanding Blood-letting, from the numbering of 
Pulfes, and the ufe of the Thermometers then he begins 
his Hiftory of his Curing the Fevers at Sea, giving us 
particular Accounts of the age of the Patient, the 
time of the Difeafe, his number of Pulfes, how much 
oiore they were, or fewetj than in his Natural State ; 
and then cures them as he told us laft Year : He ob- 
ferves, that Opim given in a fmall Quantity, always 
makes the Patient delirous, and in a greater Quantity, 
kills, 
