Every patient his own doctor ... Containing ... receipts ... Among these are that ... new discovery, by which the scurvy ... is cured: and for the successful practice of which Captain Cook received the premium medal from the Royal Society ... Also the methods used by the Humane Society for the recovery of persons apparently drowned / [Lewis Robinson].

  • Robinson, Lewis, M.D
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[1778]
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Credit: Every patient his own doctor ... Containing ... receipts ... Among these are that ... new discovery, by which the scurvy ... is cured: and for the successful practice of which Captain Cook received the premium medal from the Royal Society ... Also the methods used by the Humane Society for the recovery of persons apparently drowned / [Lewis Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ‘3 ] ' fttould fee in the feveral prifons of that large city ? but to his furprize, after vifiting them all, and find¬ ing them full of malefactors, for the late emprefs then fuffered none of thofe who were convifted of capital crimes to be put to death, yet he could dif- cover no fever among them, nor learn that any acute diftemper peculiar to jails had ever been known there. He obferved that ibme of thofe places of confine¬ ment had a yard, into which the prifoners were al¬ lowed to come for the air; but that there were others without this advantage, yet not fickly : fo that he could affign no other reafon for the health¬ ful condition of thofe men than the kind of diet they ufed ; which was the fame with that of the common people of the country, who not being able to pur- chafe flefli-meat live moftly on rye-bread, (the moft acefcent of any bread) and drink quas. He con¬ cluded with faying, that upon his return to Peters¬ burg, he had made the fame enquiry there, and with the fame refult. Thus far my informer: from whofe account it would appear, that the rye-meal affifted both in quickening the fermentation, and adding more fixed air; iince the malt alone could not fo readily pro¬ duce fo acidulous and brifk a liquor. And there is little doubt, but that whenever the other grains can' be brought to a proper degree of fermentation, they will more or lefs in the lame way become ufefuL That oats will, I am fatisfied, from what I have been told by one of the intelligent friends of Captain Cook. This gentleman being on a cruize in a large Ihip, in the beginning of the late war, and the feurvy breaking out among his crew, he bethought himfelf of a kind of food, he had feen ul'ed in fome parts of the country, as the moft proper on this occafion. Some oatmeal is put into a wooden veffel, hot water is poured upon it, and the infufion continues until C the