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10 



REMARKS 



ON 



THE 



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T 



O N 



XL 







the Prefe 



of Health 



Voyages- — Account 



Difeafes, and the Remedies and Preventatives iifed on 



Voyage. 



our 



/ 



.IdEO utile est scire UNUMQtTEMQtIE, quid, & QUANDO MAXIME CAVEAT. 



Corn. Celfus de Medlchm^ lib, i'upraf. 



'PRESER- 

 VATION 



OFMARI- 



•NERS. 



A 



FTER the difcovery of America and the Eaft Indies, by the 

 way round the Cape of Good Hope, the hiftory of the firfl 

 long navigations, abounds with ^the mofl melancholy accounts of 



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a dreadful and alarming mortality raging on board the velTels. 



Death 



multifa 



■ious and terrible approaching fymptoms, 

 without remedy, though none of the leafl fources of human 

 mifery, is, however, exceeded by the lofs of thoufands of young, 

 hale, and very ufeful fea-faring men, who, in a great commer- 

 cial ftate are an irreparable lofs, and muft become alarming to the 

 ftate, either during the time of or on the eve of a war. This 



.mortality was felt again on certain occafions 



later times; and 



the 



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