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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    f *■ C 8 ] with bljue fpots of different fizes like bruifes, with two ulcers which difcharge a thin bloody ichor, and have a black mortified appearance; his legs are more fwelled at night than in the morning; he is generally coftive; his appetite is good, and his pulfe pretty regular.—February 1, gave him half a pint of the Wort morning and evening.—3, Gave a pint in the morning and half a pint in the evening. -—7, Gave a pint morning and evening.—8, The Wort purged him laft night, but he took the fame quantity today without having any fuch effe6h Finds himfelf fomething better.—12, Gave him a pint in the morning, another at noon, and a third at night. —20, He looks healthier, his legs are not fo much fwelled> the ulcers feem inclinable to heal, having left that black bloody appearance. Gave him a quart of Wort in the morning, a pint at noon, and another at night.—28, He finds himfelf greatly better, the ulcers being almoft healed, and the fwelling gone, except a little in the evening; the fkin is peeling off his legs. Gave him a quart in the morning, another at noon, and another at night.—March 6, Has no complaints, and returns to his duty, but continues to drink the Wort, the quantity of which is to be leffened by degrees, until he leaves it off entirely.” “ John Carrol, aged thirty-five, formerly healthy, brought a Pox with him from England, which has eluded the force of all the medicines given him. owing