Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] Its being adopted are very ftriking* In the annexed note* the reader will find the i * tc 1 have read and heard many relations of men “ fuppofed to be dying of this malady (the fcurvy) “ who were faid to have been perfedly recovered by being carried on Ihore to feed on the grafs, to fmeil « the earth, and by fuch like means. Thefe rela- “ tions are not altogether deftitute ot truth ; the fol- a lowing may be depended upon : « In the year 1761, when the Englifh fleet lay at « Belleifle, on the coafl of France, the men in his “ majefty’s (hips were preferved from the fcurvy by the feafonable fupplies of greens fent fiom England, cc gut the feamen in the tranfports had not this benefit: 11 hence they became in general very much afflicted <c with the fcurvy. Many of thofe unfortunate per- <c fons? labouring under this fevere evil, and utterly cc deftitute of proper remedies, were carried on fhore^ u and after being ftript of their cloaths, were buried « in a pit dug in the earth (the head being left above “ the ground) their bodies were covered over with the « earth, and permitted to remain thus interred for^ “ feveral hours, until a large and profufe fwe&t eniued. u After undergoing this operation, many who had “ been carried on men’s (boulders to thefe pits, were “ of themfelves able to walk to their boats 3 and what ** jo ** was](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
