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stirred up such tumultuous Disorders in the Blood, and other animal Juices, as much promoted the Increase of the Disease.
But to be more particular in Things of greater Moment: His Royal Highness, then lord High-Admiral, (with Prince Rupert) setting Sail the Ninth of November. 1664, with the Fleet against the Hollanders, gave our Physician, Sir Charles, Leisure to attend some Patients in this Pestilential Distemper: Whom in the first Assaults of that Contagion, were taken with frequent Shiverings, Pains of the Back and Loins, the Pulse small, frequent and unequal; cold without, and hot within, heavy, weary, and lumpish; the Appetite lost, with Vomiting: Some were at the first Sleepy, but in the heighth of the Fever watchful, raving, and restless; they had great Pains in the Head, Thirsty, Bitterness in the Mouth, and the Tongue sometimes inflamed and Black; the Urine in some thick and stinking, in others inclining to be Red like those that are well: Some were afflicted with Blanes, Bubo's behind the Ears, under the Arm-holes, or else in the Groins: others with Carbuncles, black, blue livid, or reddish Spots, with a Circle round them: So from the diversity of the Cause, there arose various Symptoms; but in all, the Faculties of the Body were disturbed, and their whole Actions perverted.
