A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.

  • Ives, Edward, -1786.
Date:
1773
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Credit: A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 443 ] APPENDIX. N°. I. Medical and Chirurgical Observations. To avoid interruptions in the narrative, I omitted to enlarge on the feveral difeafes with which the fquadron was afflidled. I lhall now treat of that fubjed more diftindly, as fomething of this kind will certainly be expected from a perfon of my profeflion; and I flatter myfelf, that, although I mean to be concife, yet, what I have to offer will be of fome fervice to the general interefts of the navy. On this occafion I beg leave to carry the reader as far back as the 9th of March lySA--* when Mr. JVatfon left Plymouth with all his fhips com¬ panies in perfed health. In the months of May and June following, . feveral diforders took place in the fquadron, and in fpite of the united efforts of all our officers, who ordered the decks to be conftantly fwept and fcraped, and the ventilators to be daily ufed, by the 9th of July^ when we arrived at Madagafcar^ they had increafed to fo great a degree, that the Kent alone had buried twelve men, befides a large number who were reduced to fuch an extremity, that they muft have died, had we con¬ tinued only a few days more at fea. Tho diforders under which the Kends people laboured at this time, were principally Putrid Fevers^ and Putrid Fluxes \ which though common to hot climates, were, I believe, .confiderably increafed by the great quantities of ftock'fifh and other provifions flowed in the fiffi-room and between the guns of the lower deck: the fifli becoming putrid by the heat of the wea¬ ther, and by their long continuance there, emitted fuch a noxious fmell, as made the air, in every part of the fhip below, unfit for refpiration. Be¬ fides, by this time the fea water had unavoidably made its way through the chinks of the ports and hawfe-holes, and by its {linking effluvia had greatly added to the contagion.