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tional munificence, and executed witli the moil indefatigable la 



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hour, and a noble exertion of knowledge, experience, and perfeve- 

 ranee, are the mofl undeniable proofs of this fpirit of emulation, in 

 this important bufmefs to mankind. 



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fequence of 



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o-reafand able navigator. Captain Cook, has communicated to the 

 world the method he employed for the prefer vation of the healths 

 and lives of his fliip's company,, and its fuccefs. The Pvoyal So- 

 ciety has crowned his paper with the prefentation of Sir Godfrey 



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Copley's golden medal, to teftify her approbation of the excellent 

 method propofed by him. The learned prefident of the Society, 

 has, upon this eccafion, 'illuflrated the method ufcd by the navi- 

 gator, with that perfpicuity, learning, experience, and both medi- 



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cal and natural knowledge, which are peculiar to him, and have 



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procured him .the merited applaufe of the learned world. 



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.thefe publ 



might feem fuperfl 



to fay any thing 



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more on a fubjed fo ably fet forth : however, as I have had fre- 

 quent opportunities of inveftigating this fubjedt with care and at- 



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itention, and can give fome necelTary details on the preparation and ufe 

 of the antifeptics 5 and laflly, as I flatter myfelf not only to be able 

 ito propofe fome: material improvements on many parts of this me- 

 thod, but alfo to fuggefl fome important hints, which may lead to 

 ilill greater difcoveries -, I thought it on the prefent occalion by no 



aneans fuperiluous to publifh my obfervations and remarks on the 



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