Atmospherical diseases this month are of the same kind as in the last Report; Hooping Cough is on the decline; Ophthalmis frequent and obstinate. Hooping Cough and Sore Throats are the only ailments which have prevailed this month, and the frequency of these is on the decline. The list of atmospheric diseases has somewhat increased during the present month. Several severe cases of ophthalmia have hap pened; children have suffered in this complaint more than adults. Intermittents commonly occur in the neighbourhood of the town during the spring months; this year they have been frequent. Hooping cough is nearly gone. NEW Medical and Physical JOURNAL. VOL X.]: AUGUST 1815. [NO. 58. To the Editors of the New Medical and Physical Journal. IF GENTLEMEN, you should consider the accompanying "Naval Medical Sketches," drawn at the bedside of sickness, without any view to support a favourite theory, but merely to record facts, as deserving a place in your valuable Miscellany, I beg you will give them a place. It has seldom happened, that so large a body of men has been subjected to so wide a range of morbific causes in the same space of time, as that of which a medical history is here sketched out. The Banks of the Garronne, the Potomac, and the Mississippi, were successively traversed by our men in the short space of twelve months, besides the pestiferous vallies of Jamaica and Cuba. The vicissitudes of climate were great and rapid, while various other causes of disease were powerful, and applied under the most unfavourable circumstances. The effects resulting from all these, are strikingly exemplified in the medical history herewith transmitted, and which, I hope, will not be found entirely devoid of interest or utility. I am, His Majesty's Ship, Royal Oak, Portsmouth Harbour, June 21, 1915. WILLIAM THOMPSON, No. 58. N MEDICAL SKETCHES, "Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum HIS Majesty's Ship, ROYAL OAK, sailed from Bourdeaux on the 28th of May, 1814, having a complement of nine hundred men on board, including her own ship's company, and convoying a fleet of transports, in which were embarked five thousand men, under the command of Major General Ross, destined to act against the North American States. The troops continued healthy until our arrival in the warmer latitudes, when a fever broke out, which will be noticed hereafter. On the 22d of June, Anthony Joseph, a man of colour, and native of Madras, was seized with pain and tightness across the chest, difficult respiration, and pain in the head and extremities. Pulse 110, full and hard; skin hot and dry; short, dry cough. Submur. hyd. gr. vj. Pulv. jalap 9j. statim sumendus. Venesectio ad 3xx. Vespere. The medicine operated copiously, but the pulmonic symptoms are unabated. Twenty ounces more of blood were drawn, which induced syncope, without relieving the pain in bis breast. Thirst urgent; tongue foul. A large blister to the breast, and the saline effervescing draughts every four hours. 23. The general febrile symptoms somewhat relieved, but the cough is troublesome, with a small pulse of 110. The effervescing draughts, with tinct. digit. tinct. scillæ ǎā m. xx. Sextis horis. 24th. Little alteration. Rep. medicament. pediluvium, Vespere. 25th. After a restless night, complains this morning of acute pain in the right hypochondrium when pressed upon, and which particularly impedes his breathing. The |