A letter to the critical reviewers, on the most effectual means of preventing sickness in His Majesty's fleets and diminishing the expences of maritime service / by William Renwick.

  • Renwick, William, 1740?-1814.
Date:
1794
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Credit: A letter to the critical reviewers, on the most effectual means of preventing sickness in His Majesty's fleets and diminishing the expences of maritime service / by William Renwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    To the Authors Critical Review. “ THE publication favoured with your further notice propofes, for the prevention of naval ficknefs, an invention afcribed to its proper author, together with a general ufe of the diet JirJi recommended hy the 'ujriter; plans that are known to Government not to be adopted in any ftiip in his Majefty’s fervice. To thefe is added a propofal, alfo originating in the writer, for obtaining effence of fpruce without any expence to the State. • Beer is not mentioned to exhibit its utility; nor are the effeGfcs of damp [putrid vapour] introduced to prove that fcurvy originates in that caufe, but to prove the prevalence of more malignant difeafe. The work alfo evinces the infufficiency of means that are cither impraHicable in their continuance, or otherwife inadequate to the purification that is neceffary. Thefe, inftead of being propofed as new plans, are reprefented to b^ in cullomary adoption, and re- probated for their manifefled delufion,—Did the author wifh to arrogate to himfelf the plans of others, or to propofe (except in their improvement) fuch as were already adopted, he would not fo attentively communicate them to thofe who are mojl acquainted with naval concerns j every publication on the fub- je6l being tranfmitted to the Boards for whofe in- fpedfion they are chiefly intended. “ The infsrtion of this in your next Review, will not be refufed to an author whofe labours for thepub^ he welfare you have fo often applauded. Gentlemen, Brunfwick, Nov. 14. B a ” W. RENWICK.” ‘ WE