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the principles both of found policy as" well as of humanity, fliould preser 



prompt every man of knowledg 



and who has an opportunity of 



making obfervat 



this great and interefling fubjec^, to com 



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municate his obfervations to the public, together with his propo- 

 fals for the prefervatibn of fo ufeful a 



{Qt of men as mar 



that thofe who are intruded with the condud of naval affairs, may 

 have an opportunity of trying thefe propofed remedies and prophy- 

 laxies, and upon finding that fome anfwer and others do not, the 

 public may be enabled to profit by their experience, and thus pre- 



ferve the lives of many thoufands of ufeful members to fociety. It 

 has been frequently the pradice of the great officers for naval affairs in 

 the various commercial nations, not only to recommend many of 

 thefe things by way of experiment, but likewife to encourage thofe 



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by rewards, who had the good fortune or fkill to difcover fome new 



any manner the premature lofs of mari- 



method of preventing in 



ners 



by difeafes, efpecially thofe of the putrid kind. 



But none of 



the maritime powers 



boafl fo many effays, and fo many fuccefs 



ful attempt 



for faving the 1 



of mariners as Great B 



tam^i 



The legiflat 



and executive branches of ' government, together 



with all the public learned bodies, as well as individuals, concurred 



career. The lafl voyages undertaken 



this noble and benevolent 



under the royal patronage, planned by wifdom, fupported by na 



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tional 



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