Official testimonies of the benefits arising from the essence or extract of malt : as used in the British Navy, for making wort at sea consisting of short extracts from the best writers; from medical journals kept on board the King's ships; and from the testimony of surgeons ... / prepared and sold by Holdsworth & Barnard ... under the encouragement and protection of His Majesty's letters patent, granted to the late Mr. Thornton.
- Holdsworth & Barnard
- Date:
- 1783
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Official testimonies of the benefits arising from the essence or extract of malt : as used in the British Navy, for making wort at sea consisting of short extracts from the best writers; from medical journals kept on board the King's ships; and from the testimony of surgeons ... / prepared and sold by Holdsworth & Barnard ... under the encouragement and protection of His Majesty's letters patent, granted to the late Mr. Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ‘1 ] day.—10, Gave him a pint twice a day.—it. The Wort purged him laft night, but ceafed im¬ mediately on taking twenty drops of tin&ura the- baica in two fpoonfuls of cinnamon water.—12, Gave him half a pint three times a day.—18, He is much better, can flretch out his legs, and walk pretty well. Gave him two pints and a half in the day.;—26, Continues mending. Gave him a pint three times a day.—March 9, Now finds himfelf pretty well, and is returned to his duty, but dill continues to take the Wort in a fmaller quantity “ William Waters, aged thirty-fix, a ftrong man, and formely very healthy, was affli&ed with fcorbutic complaints all winter. February 1, Complains of weaknefs, falling away in his flefh, and ulcers on his legs; dreffed the ulcers dry, and gave him three half pints of the Wort in the dav.— 6, Gave him a pint thrice in the day.—10, Gave him two quarts in the day.—20, Gave him three quarts in the day. March 10, Ulcers healed up, has no complaints, and looks remarkably fat and fair.” Thus far the journal of Mr. Young, Surgeon of his Majefty’s fhip the jafon. The next fair trial of the Wort was made, as wTe may fay, in the face of the whole maritime world, by Capt. Cook, that molt able and humane navigator, in his fecond voyage round the world, in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30792824_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
