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I. A Utter of Dr William Oliver, F. 3^. 5. mi. 
cernhiz a. Calenture. 
SIR, 
IN the month of Aifg, 1695 I wai called upon about 
four a Clock rn the morning, to fee a Sailer on board 
xht Albe Marie Man of War, in a violent Calenture. He wai 
between 50 and 40 years of age, brown hairM, pretty tall» ^ 
but thin, and had not n.uch flefti about bi> Bones. When 
I faw him firft, I found him in the hands of 3 or 4 of his 
Comrades, who were hardly able to manage him, bccaufe 
of his ftrugglings, and conftant endeavours to get from 
them. I obferved, he very often cryed out, he would 
go into the green fields ^ , his looks were as furious and 
wild as thofe of a Lyon, and every now and then he would 
heartily curfe thofe that held him. The firfl thing Fdid 
was, to examine his Pulfe, I felt, 'tistrue, a diforderly mo- 
tion of the Blood in the Artery, and a burning fiery heat 
all over his habit of body, but cou'd perceive no diftinfti- 
on^, or vibration of Pulfe atall The Surgeon of theShip, 
a good experienced man in that way, had, before I came, 
attempted to bleed him but tho the. Vein of the Arm was 
fairly open'd, yet coad he not procure an ounce of Blood 
from thence. Upon that I ordered him to open the fron- 
tal Vein which fucceeded no better, for that foonf^^opt 
too. This put me upon trying a third time, what effects 
the opening the Jugular Vein might have. From this^Vein, 
tho our Orifice was pretty large, we had about 1 Ounces 
of florid t hick Blood, and then it quite ftopt there too. 
I was, I rnuftconfefs not a Jit tJe furpriz'd at this 5 and or- 
*der d the Surgeon to unbind his Arm, nnd try whether he 
could make blip bleed again at that Orifice, which 1 re- 
member 
