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and clofely covered to pretent its growing cold : of this liquor the preser 

 perfons threatened by the fcurvy drank every day one dr two pints 



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warm, two or thtee hotirs before and sifter their meals j thofe 

 who had already fome flight fymptoms of the fcurvy, drank a quart 

 of this wort, twice a day; and laftly, thofe who were very much 



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attacked by that dreadful evil, were allowed three quarts and more. 



1 obferved wonderful effedls of this remedy on board our fliip. 



Amongft other fcorbutic patients, we had two who were icarcely 



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& few days out at fea, when the firfl fymptoms of the fcurvy Con- 



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ftantly appeared, and rapidly increafed to a very violent and dan- 

 rgerous degree ; their gums were lilefeding and ulcerated, their teeth 

 loofe, their feet oedematous, with large, livid, aftd purple blotches ; 



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•the fwelling, when prefred by a finger, would leave a pit for a good 

 while J the urine tlnelt ofFenfively putt4d> and contained long fila- 

 ments : and one of the men loft entirely the ufe of his limbs, which 

 "became c©ntra6l:ed ; thefe two patients were not only quite reftored 

 by the copious ufe of the fi^eet-wort, 'bat one of /them acquired a 



quite new fet of gums, the old ones being much impaired, and 

 Slaving fallen gradually away by ulceration ; and -the other was> in 



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^his contraction, much relieved^ by conftantly a^pplyi^g the wariA 

 'grains of malt, (after the infufion 



or fweet-'wort had been drawn 



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ppled limbs : I faw another man, whofe fwelling 



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