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Medical and miscellaneous observations relative to the West India Islands / by John Williamson, M.D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, formerly surgeon to the Caithness Highlanders, and late of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

  • Williamson, John (Surgeon)
Date:
1817
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Credit: Medical and miscellaneous observations relative to the West India Islands / by John Williamson, M.D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, formerly surgeon to the Caithness Highlanders, and late of Spanish Town, Jamaica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    2S <6f elocution, will produce but litrle effect on the minds of a mixed congregation ; while the sublime truths of the Holy Scripture, and the excellent Liturgy of the Church of England, when delivered with that serious energy by which they ought to be enforced, can scarcely fail of making a due and lasting ■'impression. If their Lordships the Bishops would be pleased to pay some attention to these commendable qualifications, i cannot help thinking that secession from the esta- blished church would be very little known. Accom- plished men, and energetic exemplary characters as members of the church, would secure to the establish- ment the unqualified support of the nation. July 2Uh.—Weather hazy; got on in our course ■about four knots an hour-. A piece of candle on a hook caught a bonetta fish, 9>6th.—Our ship's company were .prol)ably not so moderate in the use of wine as they ought to have been. Jn warmer weather, an increasing thirst follows; but, feeling indulgence unsatisfactory, and conceiving it un- healthy, I had not hitherto yielded to the desire I felt to drink spirits and water, or any thing else, in the fore- noon, or before dinner : found that,' by resisting first dispositions, the desire has subsided. 26///.—Were visited to-day by some friends in the fleet. In the evening, bore down on the frigate, in <&bedience to a signal from the commodore.