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R E M A R K S 



O N 



THE 



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PRESFR- tions with thefe hot grains. The quantity of malt we had oa 



VATION 

 OF MAR! 

 ■' N E R S . 



board, amoun 



ted to 1 1 large cafks -, and during the two firfl: years. 



well; but in the third year, fome lumps were 



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found mouldei^d in the calks, though fome other parts ftill re- 



kept remarkably 



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mained very good; the wort procured from this malt was inferior 

 in quality, but by increafmg the quantity of malt and lelTening 

 that of water, the infufion was ftill found a powerful and excel- 

 lent antifeptic. It has been objeded againft the infution of malt, 

 that it will not cure the fcurvy at fea y- * fmce this antlfcorbutk 



fea- me dicing 

 progrefs for 



will only 



the fcurvy from making any great 



njtderable while. \ 



But if we 



fider the two 



or three cafes before mentioned; we fhall be obliged to allow that 

 they cannot be confidered otherwife than perfed cures. 



For we 



muil likewife remark on the other hand,, that as long as the pa.- 



(who is reftored to health by 



fe of the fweet-wort) re 



mams on 



board, the caufes which produced the fcurvy 



rer. 



moved ; the putrid water continues to. be his drink, the putrid fait- 



r 



fieih his diet, and the putrid air is at 



all times inhaled 



him 



at leaft during night, between- the decks,, all which circumftances 



keep up and increafe \\\^fomes of putrefcence in the body. 



A per- 



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fon therefore with a bad habit of body, may be faid to have been 



perfeftly 



* Capt. Cook's Voyage, vol. n. p/ 289 

 4 Idem, ibid. 



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