An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates. With the method of preventing their fatal consequences / by James Lind ; To which is added an appendix, concerning intermittent fevers ; and a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea.

  • James Lind
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot climates. With the method of preventing their fatal consequences / by James Lind ; To which is added an appendix, concerning intermittent fevers ; and a simple and easy way to render sea water fresh, and to prevent a scarcity of provisions in long voyages at sea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    acute angle. One end of this tube should be fixed into the hole made in the cover of the pot, the other should be fastened — to the musket-barrel. By this, nearly the same quantity of water may be procured. as by means of the tea-kettle, It may justly be supposed, that the cop- pers used ‘for boiling: the provisions will, in every ship, contain more than the pro- portion of two quarts of water for every person on board; if these were furnished. with proper still-heads, they would be , portion of three pints of fresh and. whole- some water for each-man. . From the improvements made in dis- tillation by the ingenious Doctor Hales, published in the year 1757, it appears, in five minutes, that is, fifty gallons in . twelve hours, from a small cylindrical still pewter plates set- edgeways in its head. This still was only fifteen: inches in, diame- ter, at the widest part, and held six or
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