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
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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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    [ *4 ] the Wort, marmalade of carrots, and rob of le¬ mons and oranges.—I believe there was hardly a man in the fhip that did not attribute our being fo free of the Scurvy, to the beer and vegetables we made ufe of at New Zealand/' Page 152,—“ When we put in here (at Ota- heite) the Refolution had but one fcorbutic man on board, and a marine who had long been fick, and who died the fecond day ofter our arrival of a complication of diforders, without the lead mix¬ ture of the Scurvy/' Page 305,—“ After having been nineteen weeks at fea, and living all the time upon fait diet, we could not but want fome refrefhment, although I mud own, and that with pleafure, that on our ar¬ rival here (at the Marquefas Iflands) it could hardly be faid we had one fick man, and but a few that had the lead complaint. This was un¬ doubtedly owing to the many antifcorbutic articles we had on board, and to the great attention of the furgeon, who was remarkably careful to apply them in time/' At the conclufion of vol. 2, he fays,—<c Having been abfent from England three years and eighteen days, in which time, and under all changes of cli¬ mate, I lod but four men out of one hundred and eighteen, and only one of them by ficknefs. It may not