Practical thoughts on the prevention and cure of the scurvy : especially in the British Navy / By William Jervey.

  • Jervey, William
Date:
1769
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Credit: Practical thoughts on the prevention and cure of the scurvy : especially in the British Navy / By William Jervey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] them, how they might be cor- reded or changed at the moft moderate expence, likewife what fome have already difcovered, or propofed, and how thefe may with more eafe be put in execu¬ tion. The provifions then are fait beef and pork, flour padding with raifins or fliet, boiled peafe, bif- cuit of a very vifcid and glutinous quality: For drink, fmall beer, by the motion of the fhip generally very thick and turbid; or where beer falls fliort, or cannot be pro¬ cured, Englifli fpirits half a piat ; in wine countries, wine a pint; in the t