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greateft empires, will be forgotten, before the fervices ren- 
dered by thefe illuftrious navigators can be effaced from 
the memory of man.: 
fondateurs des plus grands empires, feront oubliés, avant que les fervices rendus par ces na- 
vigateurs illuftres, puiffent s’effacer de la memoire des hommes, 
N° XXXVI. 
The antifeptic Virtues of Vegetable Acid and Marine Salt 
combined, in various Diforders accompanied with Pu- 
tridity ; communicated in a Letter to JouN MoRGAN, 
M.D. F.R.S. and Profeffor of the Theory and Practice 
of Phyfic at Philadelphia, by WitLtAM WRicuT, M. 
D. of Trelawney in Famaica. 
AVING experienced the virtues of vegetable acid 
and marine falt, when combined; I beg leave to 
lay before you a few obfervations on the ufe of this fimple 
medicine in feveral difeafes. It is my fincere wifh, that 
it may prove as beneficial to mankind in general, as it has 
been to many of my patients in this part of the country. 
Take of lime-juice or lemon-juice three ounces, of ma- 
rine falt as much as the acid will diflolve ; of any fimple 
diftilled cordial water one pint; and of loaf fugar a fuf- 
ficient quantity to fweeten it. The dofe of this mixture 
mutt be proportioned to the age, fex, and violence of the 
difeafe. A wine glafs-ful may be given to adults every 
two, four or fix hours. 
By Geoffroy’s table it appears, that the foffil alkali has 
a greater affinity with the marine, than with the vegeta- 
ble acid. However, marine falt diflolves readily in the 
lime-juice, throws up a white fcum to the furface, and on 
applying the ear near the veflel where the experiment is 
made, a fmall hifling may be heard, fimilar to that when 
acids 
