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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    In the beginning of thefe Tertians^ as there are but few rules or precepts which will not admit of exceptions, I have in fome very fanguine habits of body bled even a I'econd time •, and am of opinion that the probability of thereby protradling the fever’s duration for a few months, at leaft in Gem- hroon^ is not fo hazardous as running the rifque of its change into an Un- t‘cmilting Continual Fever •, in which laft cafe it is always highly dangerous, and of a malignant nature. I am a living witnels ot an Autumnal Fever which began and continued almoft perfectly regular for thirteen months, in my own perlbn, in fpite of all the medicines I took to get rid of it; neither did it ever double the paroxyfrr*, unlefs it was my own fault. I neither bled nor ufed any other fevere evacuation, and I have known the like hap¬ pen to feveral others*, fo that in Gombroon thofe Intermitting Fevers fometimes run much beyond the ufual period of their duration in other countries *, nay even where bleeding hath not been ufed, the Vernal often continues to harrals the patient for fix months. But to return from this digrelTion : I have often found the Fever by its continuance for a few days fo to weaken the patient, that I was glad to adminifter the bark even on the firft Intermijfioiiy and always have done it with fafety and fuccefs *, fometimes indeed, as was obferved in ^otidianSy on firft giving this medicine it did not fucceed, nay in fuch cafes I have found the next paroxyfm, as it were exafperated, though without danger to the patient; but the fecond exhibition of this noble medicine never failed to put a temporary ftop to the fever, and often, if I might be allowed the expreffion, to make an entire conqueft over it. When fymptoms were not fo urgent after Inter'mijfion from the Fever^ I gave the patient a drachm of the Sal Polychrefi evening and morning in a draught of bitters, and direbled the bitters by themfelves to be taken two or three times a day, efpecially during the Intsrmijfwns of the Fever. Care was taken not to overheat the patient, to prevent his difeafe being converted into a tiontinual Fevery of which (except fome very great irregularities had been committed by the patient) he runs no great rifque, after the IntermiJJions from the F'ever have for fome days been perfe(5lly diftineft. I thus prepared him for the bark, as moft prablitioners in Europe do at this day. When once the Intermijftons are fair and compleat, you are fenfible there can be no danger from the bark. To fay more to you upon the fubjeft would be improper; I fhall therefore only add, that I have fometimes feen thefe Fevers, without any reafon that I could aftign, double their paroxyfms; and fometimes on the third Intermijfion that appeared, I adminiftered the bark, and thus put a ftop to their further progreis. After Fevers have been iubdued by the bark, all evacuations become hurtful except a vomit, nor is even a vomit to be given, unlefs in cafes of a relapfe. Amorous dalli¬ ances with the fair fex, (of wlfich I had feveral inftances, as well in Gombroon as elfewhere,) infallibly caufe a relapfe, even where there hath been no enjoy¬ ment. Too great an application to bufinefs, too much thoughtfulnefs, and .all forts of exercife, even only in fuch a degree as on other occafions might 5 be