An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners, in answer to the prize-questions proposed by the Royal Humane Society : "1. What are the best means of preserving mariners from shipwreck?-2. Of keeping the vessel afloat?-3. Of giving assistance to the crew, when boats dare not venture out to their aid?" / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F.R.S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, Lond. honorary member of Medical and Phil. Societies of Lond. Edinb. Paris, Manchest. Philadel. &c.

Anthony Fothergill

Date:: 1799

Credit: An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked mariners, in answer to the prize-questions proposed by the Royal Humane Society : "1. What are the best means of preserving mariners from shipwreck?-2. Of keeping the vessel afloat?-3. Of giving assistance to the crew, when boats dare not venture out to their aid?" / by A. Fothergill, M.D. F.R.S. member of the Royal College of Physicians, Lond. honorary member of Medical and Phil. Societies of Lond. Edinb. Paris, Manchest. Philadel. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ * ] taken amidft a variety of avocations, .though' much fhort of what I could wifh, is yet the belt I could produce in fo fhort a time, and with fo few materials. Doubtlefs the Author may be accufed of rafh- nefs, in thus venturing out of his native element, and in quitting, at once, terra fir ma, to encounter the dangers of the deep, and to brave the ftill more ftormy fea—of criticifm ! Prefuming, however, on your wonted candor, that you, my Lords of the Admiralty (in other words, my Supreme Judges), will not be ex- treme to mark what may feem amifs, I here chearfully fubmit to your infpection, my log- book, charts, and fuch implements as appear neceflary to render fea-voyages lefs perilous, and, in cafe of fhipwreck, to fave the lives and pro-' perty of unfortunate mariners in the hour of diftrefs. the anonymous writer in a late Morning Chronicle, who claims it as the difcovery of another anonymous writer, and publifhed eight years ago in an Anonymous French Journal, brought forth any thing more «new or moke practicable than what originally appeared in this Eflay, when read before the Society in March laft, it would affuredly have afforded me much pleafure to have announced it. But who the original inventor is, if not Mr. Bell, or in which of the numerous French Journals the fuppofed dif- covery is recorded, this deponent faietb not:' Therefore, —. Si quid novi/li refliiis i/lis, Can Ji Jus imperii, Ji non his utere mecum. GENERAL

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