A dissertation on sea-water : with the regimen proper to be observed in the use of it. Together with some practical hints on drinking the spaws, or any other medicinal waters. In a letter from a physician in the country to his friend in the town.

Date:
[1755?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A dissertation on sea-water : with the regimen proper to be observed in the use of it. Together with some practical hints on drinking the spaws, or any other medicinal waters. In a letter from a physician in the country to his friend in the town. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c f ] tunity of experiencing the fame many Years paft, both at Sea and Land; before any One in thele Parts had wrote upon that Subject. More efpecially from my Situation as having been .a Navy-Surgeon, and agreable to the fecond Art. of that judicious Plan lately fettled by the Navy-medical Society, which I take upon me to infert (verbatim) for the Benefit of thofe into whole Hands it might not otherways chance to fall. lid. “ That as one confiderable <c Purpofe of this Undertaking, is u to purfue particularly fuch Branch- “ es of Medical Knowledge as fall “ more immediately under the Ob- (( fervation of Navy-Surgeons, who <c may be reafonably prefumed to “ have Advantages for fome partis “ cular Difquifitions, peculiar to “ their Situation; fuch as an Oppor- “ tunity of enquiring into the Na- B z “ ture