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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    C 3° ] fiage of this diforder, as defcribed above, that it will in molt cafes effeft a recovery; unlefs where it is deeply rooted in the conditution, and that then it will prevent it from rifing to any great height. It may be necedary to obferve that the Effcnce appears now to be as good, and of the fame confidence, as it was when firft put on board- I am, See, To Herbert Sawyer, Efq; J. SPRU N TV' In confequence of thefe and many like teftimo- nies, the Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty ordered the Efience of Malt to be ferved not only to fhips on foreign fervice, or Rations of confider- able duration, but to all flnps ol war, whether in the channel, or any where on the coads, fo long as they were at fea. / ■ . . The happy elfeas of this order, on the health of the Britifh feamen, has been amazingly con- fpicuous in the laft three years of the lad war; infomuen that without any unufual feverify in the imprefs fervice, more men have been mudered in the royal navy, than it ever could obtain in any former war; notwithdanding that in the late war, the nation was bereaved of the numerous fupplies