Medical discipline; or, rules and regulations for the ... preservation of health on board the ... East India Company's ships / [Alexander Stewart].

  • Stewart, Alexander, active 1798.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Medical discipline; or, rules and regulations for the ... preservation of health on board the ... East India Company's ships / [Alexander Stewart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tally unfit for a61ual fervice on their arrival in India. Hence your commer- cial and political interefls are fo inti- mately connected with the fhare of health and active ftrength enjoyed by your feamen and foldiers, that what- ever concerns their prefervation will], I doubt not, appear to your Honourable .Court an object as important in every view of wjfe policy,^ as Jt is truly inte- rcfling to the eaufe of humanity. The fuccefsful experience of the late celebrated and humane navigator Cap- tain Cook, has happily evinced how much it is in the power of well-di- rected management to preferve the bleffings of health, in the longeft voy- age, through every variety of climate,
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