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one of their number, who had feveral 
times wintered on the coaft of Weji- 
Spitzbergen, advifed his unfortunate com- 
panions to fwallow raw and frozen meat, 
broken into fmall bits ; to drink the blood 
of raindeer warm, as it flowed from 
their veins immediately after killing them; 
to ufe as much exercife as pofiible; and 
laftly, to eat fcurvy-grafs (Cochkaria) 
which grows on the iiland, though not 
in great plenty. 
I leave the Faculty to determine whe- 
ther raw frozen fieiTi, or warm raindeer 
blood, be proper antidotes to the diitem- 
per ; but exercife and the ufe of fcurvy- 
grafs have always been recommended to 
perfons of a fcorbutic tendency, whether 
actually afflicted with the diforder or 
net. Be this as it may, experience at 
Jeaft feems to have proved thefe remedies 
to be efTe6lual ; for three of the failors, 
who purfued the above method, continued 
totally free from all taint of the difeafe. 
The fourth, Theodore Weregin, on 
the 
