The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised and enlarged by William Spooner.
- Leach, Harry.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised and enlarged by William Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![KHEUMATISM 12;J liardiiess about the calves of the legs and under-parts of the thighs, are the outward and visible signs of this disease. Double the man’s daily allowance of lime-juice, and give him any kind of vegetables, preserved or otherwise, that you have on board, with a liberal allowance of pickles, beer, or wine. Give also the Quinine mixture (Recipe No. 9) three times a day, and wash out the mouth with weak Crimson fluid and water. If the provisions of the ]\[erchant Shipping Act, 1891, be faithfully carried out, scurvy will soon be an unknown disease in the merchant navy of this country; and if the article in this book headed ‘Prevention of Disease ’ (especially the part dealing with food) be strictly followed, no serious outbreak of scurvy need be feared by the captain of any ship. IDIKUMATLSM. Uheiimatism may be caused by exposure to cold and wet, or may be the result of pox or clap. No description of this disease is needed, but it is some- times so severe as to render the patient (juite helpless, and is then called Acute rheumatism, which lasts from fourteen to twenty days. If a man be attacked with tliis last form of tlie disease, keep him very warm and wrap up the joints](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28992349_0145.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
