preferring the Health of Seamen. .403 
"that diforder) from one to two or three pints in the day to 
•each man, or in fuch proportion as the furgeon thought 
necfehary ; which fometimes amounted to three quarts in 
the twenty- four hours. This is without doubt one of the 
belt antifcorbutic lea-medicines yet found out; and if 
given in time will, with proper attention to other things, I 
am perfuaded, prevent the fcurvy from making any great 
progrefs for a considerable time : but 1 am not altogether 
of opinion, that it will cure it in an advanced hate at fea. 
Sour Krout, of which we had all'o a large provision, 
is not only a wholefome vegetable food, but, in my judg- 
ment, highly antifcorbutic, and fpoils not by keeping. A 
pound of it was lerved to each man, when at fea, twice 
a week, or oftener when it was thought necehary. 
Portable Soup or Broth, was another effential article, of 
which we had likewife a liberal Supply. An ounce of 
this to each man, or fuch other proportion as was thought 
necehary, was boiled with their peafe three days in the 
week; and when we were in places where frelh vegetables 
could be procured, it was boiled with them and with wheat 
or oatmeal, every morning for breakfaft, and alfo with 
dried peafe and frelh vegetables for dinner. It enabled us 
to make feveral nourishing and wholefome mehes, and 
was the means of making the people eat a greater quan- 
tity of greens than they would have done otherwife. 
Further, we were provided with Rob of lemons and 
oranges; which the furgeon found uleful in feveral 
cafes. 
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