Letter, 'Concerning a calenture' from Wm [William] Oliver to the publisher Oliver writes of a case of a sailor afflicted with a calenture [heat stroke/feverish delirium]. Oliver and the ship's surgeon attempted bleeding the man from multiple veins with little success, obtaining only a small amount of blood. After some time the man began bleeding normally and his symptoms subsided. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter of Dr William Oliver, F. R. S. concerning a calenture'. Read to the Royal Society on 16 February 1703. [1703]