Elements of medical logick : illustrated by practical proofs and examples ; including a statement of the evidence respecting the contagious nature of the yellow fever / by Sir Gilbert Blane. --.

  • Gilbert Blane
Date:
1819
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Elements of medical logick : illustrated by practical proofs and examples ; including a statement of the evidence respecting the contagious nature of the yellow fever / by Sir Gilbert Blane. --. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    227/242 (page 215)
    action, as nearly as they could ascertain, this being an important point, for it is the number on which head-money is strictly due: this was 125. The number on the muster-book, l it), was the number of sur- vivors after the battle ; part of whom, as usual, would be transferred to the victor, and part left behind, but all equally entered on the books, as already stated. Among those left behind, would certainly be the wounded, for that there were wounded, as well as killed, it is impossible not to believe ; for, it is stated in Captain Cochrane's let- ter, in the London Gazette, that the fri- gates did not open their fire, till they were within half-musket-shot. And there is this farther proof of the closeness and severity of the conflict, that the wounded bear a smaller proportion to the killed, than in any action I ever knew : the former. bein«' in the Thetis, nine; and the latter, eight. The proportion of the wounded to the killed, is a sort of criterion of the distance of con- tending ships, on account of the number of splinters from spent shot, when they are less closely engaged.