Remarks on the scurvy as it appeared among the English prisoners in France, in the year 1795 : with an account of the effects of opium in that disease, and of the methods proper to render its use more extensive and easy; (written during his confinement in the Tower) / by R.T. Crosfeild.

  • Robert Thomas Crosfeild
Date:
1797
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Credit: Remarks on the scurvy as it appeared among the English prisoners in France, in the year 1795 : with an account of the effects of opium in that disease, and of the methods proper to render its use more extensive and easy; (written during his confinement in the Tower) / by R.T. Crosfeild. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *• ] are to make the voyage, and may have come out in want. It would not, for obvious reafons, be prudent for him to advance too much before their leaving port, but at fea a mutual power ought to exilt for him to be enabled to compel the men to have neceffary clothes, and for them to demand to be fo fupplied by him, to be ac- counted for out of their wages, at a fair price. The article of provifions is of the greateft im- portance; but in this little choice can be had after the freth hock has been expended. Some means may perhaps be difcovered of preferving animal iubftances at a moderate expence, without fait, or at lead with a fmaller quantity than is commonty employed for that purpofe: at all events, a difcovery fo very important and Salutary, is highly worthy the labours of the philofopher, and ought, in a commercial coun- try, to be encouraged by a mod ample reward. However, as this delirable difcovery has not; yet been made, all that can now be done is to modify and correft the ordinary fait provifions, as to render them as little noxious as poffible. Too much Steeping, as was before obferved, ex- Siaufts the nutritious parts of the falted beet or pork, which feems to be chemically combined with the fait. Moderate wafhing is quite ne- eetfary to remove that fuperfluity of fait which would otherwife render the meat too acrid to be eaten; but beyond certain limits it is certainly detrimental. If peafe, beans, callivances, or Other farinacea, are eaten along with the fait provifion, thus treated they will not only render it much more palatable, but (as they themfelves contain no very defpicable fhare ot nutriment) contribute much to the prefervation ot health. This N