INDEX.

A.
Absorbents useful in fluxes, [491], & seq.
Action, close, the advantages of it, [103], & seq.
Air, superiority of that at sea, [225].
—Noxious effects of it at land in a hot climate, [227].
—Extent of its influence, [228].
Alcide, sickly on the passage to America, [36].
—Subject to various forms of fevers, [39].
Aliment, want of proper, chief cause of scurvy, [300].
—Increases the vigour of the body in two ways, [510].
America, North, hotter in summer than the West Indies, [30].
—Fleet goes there to avoid the hurricanes, [35], [146].
—Uncommon season there, [156], & seq.
Amputation, the number that died of it at Barbadoes, [190].
Amputation, Mr. Alanson’s method of performing it, [543].
Antimonials, best adapted to bilious fevers, [420].
—A caution with regard to them, [422].
Army at St. Lucia, diseases in it, [127].
—Mortality in it, [27], [228], & seq.
Asthma, climate in the West Indies favourable to it, [97].
B.
Barbadoes, more refreshments at it than any other island, [27].
—Ravaged by a hurricane, [41].
—Composed of coral rock, [89].
—Conjecture concerning its origin, ibid.
Barfleur, fevers on board in consequence of recruits from a French jail, [142].
Bark, Peruvian, its effects in preventing fevers, [230], & seq.
—When useful in continued fevers, [390], & seq., [402], [422], & seq.
Bark, Peruvian, red, some account of it, [457].
Barricading a ship, what meant by it, [21].
Bath, warm, of use in the dysentery, [480].
—In the locked jaw, [522].
—Its proper temperature, [535].
Battle, the ardour of, favourable to health, [22], [77], [101].
—Number killed in, [209].
—Loss in those of April, 1782, [520].
Bedding, utility of airing it, [260].
Bile, a defect of it in the worst cases of yellow fever, [429],& seq.
—Theoretical disquisition on its influence in fevers, ibid.
Bile, the marks of a redundance of it in dysenteries, [477].
—Its tendency to prolong fluxes, [483], & seq.
Blindness from the scurvy, [24], [501].
Blisters of use in the ship fever, [399].
—For removing irritability of stomach in the yellow fever, [453], & seq.
—Of service in dysentery, [480], & seq.
Blood, a remark concerning the buff upon it, [450].
Bloodletting, cautions with regard to it in ship fevers, [388].
—In bilious fevers, [418].
—In the yellow fever, [450].
Butter, objections to its use, [310].
C.
Calomel, in certain cases, the best purgative, [421].
Camphor, estimate of its virtues, [407].
Catarrh, epidemic, one in Europe affected men at sea, [157].
—Communicated by strangers not affected with it themselves, in one of the Western Islands, [244].
Causes, a combination of them necessary to produce diseases, [126], & seq.
Chronic complaints brought on by hardship, [218].
Cleanliness the principal means of health, [254], [337].
Clothing, its great influence upon health, [238].
—Advantages and disadvantages of it, [334], & seq.
Cocoa substituted, with advantage, for butter, [311].
Cold favourable to infection, [258].
Cold hurtful in all climates, [297].
Colica pictonum, forms of medicines adapted to it, [555].
Coma, a symptom in the ship fever, [373].
Commission, Ships long in, most healthy, [54], [79], [93], [167].
Constitution, the great variety of it, [294].
—Regard to be had to it in practice, [406].
Coppers, cautions with regard to them, and instance of poison from neglect of them, [317], & seq.
Cordials, a caution with regard to them, [410].
Crowding, bad effects of it, [192].
Cruises to windward of Martinico, [48], [180].
—Near Jamaica, [120].
—How long they ought to be continued consistent with health, [148], & seq.
—A long one off St. Domingo, without the scurvy appearing, [154], & seq.
Cullen, Dr., his opinion of the origin of nervous fevers, [237].
—His great merit, [445].
D.
Delirium, a remarkable symptom in the ship fever, [373].
—Explanation of it, ibid., & seq.
—Means of removing it, [398], & seq.
—Sudden and violent in bilious fevers, [416].
Diaphoretic, what safest and best, [395].
Diet, a table of the daily allowance of it in the navy, [311].
—A method of providing what is suitable to the sick, [335].
Diet, a caution with regard to it in convalescent fevers, [358].
Diet, what best in fluxes, [494], & seq.
Dilution, the great advantage of it, [391], & seq.
Discipline, advantage of, to health, [348], [355].
Diseases, list of all those on board of the fleet, [94].
—What sorts seamen are most subject to, and most exempt from, [216].
Diseases, acute, tend naturally to wear themselves out, [70].
—Imputed anciently to supernatural influence, [220].
—Owing to neglect, ibid.
Dropsy, medicines adapted to it, [558].
Dysentery depends on the same cause as fevers, [36].
—Arises in the Prince George from cold weather, [79].
—More fatal in its acute state in a cold than a hot climate, [155].
Dysentery, appearances upon dissection, [471], & seq.
Dysentery, forms of medicines adapted to it, [553].
E.
Earthquakes frequent in the West Indies, [88].
Effluvia, what kind of them produce diseases, [134], & seq.
Elephantiasis, peculiar to Barbadoes, [235], & seq.
England, health of the fleet there compared to that in the West Indies, [67], & seq.
—Fleet there more sickly at particular periods than in the West Indies, [208].
English, their cleanliness only of modern date, [282].
Erasmus, his account of the causes of pestilential diseases in England, [282].
Erysipelas, Peruvian bark the best medicine in it, [558].
Exercise, the advantage of it, [343].
Exercise in the sun very pernicious, [233].
Expeditions, list of, frustrated by disease alone, [214].
Explosions of gunpowder, frequent and destructive, [539].
—Means of preventing them, [540].
F.
Fatigue tends to shorten life, [346].
Fevers depend on the same cause as fluxes, [36], & seq.
—More prevalent in port than fluxes, [113], [127].
—Assume a different type upon the importation of infection, [182].
—Difference of its infection from that of some other diseases, [244], [249].
Fever, ship, description of it, [371].
—Treatment of it, [386].
Fever, inflammatory, principal symptoms of it, [384].
Fevers, intermittent, some unusual remedies for them, [456], & seq.
—Forms of medicines adapted to them, [552].
Fires, the most effectual means of sweetening the air of a ship, [117].
—The most powerful means of destroying infection, [276], & seq.
Flour preferable to bread for exportation, [307].
Fluxes depend on the same cause as fevers, [36], & seq.
—Prevail least when fevers most violent, [44], [113].
—Apt to arise in ships soon after their arrival in the West Indies, [19], [84], [183].
—More frequent at sea than in port, [113].
—More frequent in ships that have been subject to fevers, [183].
—Why so frequent and fatal at West India hospitals, [192], & seq.
—Observations on them, [466].
—Treatment of them, [473].
Formidable, extraordinary degree of health on board of her, [107], [128], [365].
—Causes of it, [72], [108].
—Fever arises in her from men lent to another ship, [128].
—From pressed men, [161].
French ships, their discipline and œconomy inferior to British, [114].
Frigates more healthy than ships of the line, causes of this, [54], & seq.
—More healthy when their fire place was between decks, [287].
—A contrivance for ventilating them, [292].
Fumigation, method of performing it, [270], & seq.
G.
Gibraltar relieved by Lord Rodney, [19].
—Admissions and deaths at the hospital there, [187], [205].
Gibraltar man of war, account of her, [53].
Grosislet Bay, description of it, [28].
Gunpowder, accidents from it, [190], [539], & seq.
Guthrie, Dr., his observations on infection in Russia, [279].
H.
Habit, effect of it in resisting infection, [294].
Hæmorrhages, internal, oil and tincture of rhubarb of eminent service in them, [486], & seq.
Hæmorrhage, a limb sometimes carried off without any ensuing, [542].
Hæmorrhoids, medicines adapted to them, [555].
Hardship impairs health and shortens life, [218].
Heat communicated to the hand, a symptom of the ship fever, [378], & seq.
Hemisphere, Northern, a cold summer general all over it, [157].
Herodotus, his account of the clothing and health of the ancient Ægyptians, [284].
Hospitals not so proper for the sick as their own ships, [60].
—Account of diseases sent to them, [185].
—At Gibraltar, [187].
—At Barbadoes, [189], [197].
—At St. Christopher’s, [195].
—At St Lucia, ibid.
—At Jamaica, [198].
—At New York, [201], & seq.
—General view of them all, [205].
—Proportion of deaths in them no criterion of the success of practice, [195], [200].
Hurricane months, [28].
Hurricane, a violent one in the West Indies—its good effect on the health of the inhabitants, [40], & seq.
Hypochondriac complaints do not affect the laborious part of mankind, [219].
I.
Jaw, locked, account of those affected by it in the battles of April, 1782, [520], & seq.
—Its symptoms different from those of the tetanus, [526].
—Wherefore most frequent in hot climates, [529], & seq.
Indolence a cause of scurvy, [345].
Infection, the obscurity of and difficulty of investigating it, [238].
—Various ways in which it is introduced into a ship, [241].
—It may arise without the presence of fever, [242].
—Habit renders people insensible to it, ibid. & seq.
—It never affects all indiscriminately who are exposed to it, [245].
—It does not pass from one species of animal to another, [249].
—How to prevent the production of it, [254].
—Means of eradicating it, [264].
—Method of guarding against it, [293].
—Less frequent in hot climates than cold, [276].
Inflammatory complaints most frequent in ships where no infection, [172].
Inoculation, conjecture concerning the cause of its safety, [247].
Intermittent fevers sometimes arise on board of a ship, [32].
—Some unusual remedies for them, [456], & seq.q.
Intestines, great, the principal seat of the dysentery, [470].
L.
Labour necessary to health, [217].
—Pernicious if in excess, ibid.
—What diseases it tends to avert, [219].
—Scurvy prevented by it, [344].
Land wind at Jamaica, [119].
—Not at the small islands, ibid.
Lemon juice, extraordinary instance of its efficacy in scurvy, [86].
—The most effectual remedy in scurvy, [303].
Lemons and limes, their juice the best detergent in scorbutic ulcers, [502], & seq.
Lientery, a symptom in obstinate fluxes, [489].
Limes, instance of their great antiscorbutic effect, [56].
Liver, inflammation of it seldom known in the West Indies, [95].
—But appeared at New York in men belonging to the West-India fleet, [156].
M.
Magnesia, given with acids, removes sickness of the stomach, [452].
Malt liquor, the utility of it, [320].
Malt, essence of, a weak antiscorbutic, [57], [504].
—Of service in the beginning of scurvy, [146], [164].
Manners, Lord Robert, his death lamented, [520].
Marshes, their exhalations cause fevers, [43].
Melasses, method of using it, [305].
—Great utility of it, [308].
Mixing of men, bad consequences of, [252], & seq.
Moisture, the bad effects of it, [288].
Mortality, method of calculating the proportion of it, [88].
—Greater at sea from the want of an hospital and of proper diet, [143].
—In the fleets and hospital at different periods, [205].
—In the army in the West Indies, [206].
—In England, [207].
—Total in the fleet for three years and three months, [209].
Mortification, an uncommon instance of it in the shoulder, [83].
N.
Necessaries, Surgeons, their quantity very inadequate, [302].
New York, the fleet therein 1780, [38].
—in 1782, [150].
Nyctalopia, a symptom of the scurvy, [24], [501].
Nymph frigate, account of her health, [164].
O.
Oatmeal, the abuse of it, [308].
Observations, the difficulty of making them, [9].
Officers, more affected by foul air than common men, [116], [137].
Opium, advantage of combining with antimonials, [392].
—With neutral salts, [395].
—Its use in continued fevers, [404], [408].
—Cautions and directions with regard to it in fluxes, [476], [479].
—Its use in ulcers, [504].
—The best method of giving it in the locked jaw, [532], & seq.
Osbridge, Lieut, his ingenious contrivance for sweetening water, [331].
P.
Pediluvia hurtful in inflammatory fevers, [397].
Petechiæ, a symptom in the ship fever, [377].
Phthisis pulmonalis, not so common in the West Indies as Europe, [97].
—but more rapid, ibid.
Phœnix, Spanish Admiral’s ship, her excellent materials and construction, [53].
Pigeon Island, remarkable proof of its healthiness, [228], & seq.
Plague, its infection does not spread far, [298].
—Means of preventing it from spreading, ibid. and [299].
—Never known in tropical climates, [277], & seq.
Porter, its effect in preventing scurvy, [320].
Potatoes, raw, a remedy for scurvy, [60].
—Proposed as an article of victualling, [309], & seq.
Prudent, effects of soaking her timbers in pickle, [81].
Pulmonic complaints, medicines adapted to them, [556].
Putrefaction, simple, effluvia of it may produce fevers, [134], & seq.
Q.
Quick lime, the best preservative of water, [326], & seq.
R.
Recruits, new raised, the cause of sickness, [180].
Returns, intention of them, [6], [7].
—Specimens of them, [23].
—Method of forming them into tables, [24].
Rheumatism, forms of medicines adapted to it, [557].
Royal Oak, cause of her health, [80].
—Method of curing the scurvy on board, [81].
Ruby, remarkably healthy, [167].
S.
St. Lucia, woody, mountainous, and rainy, [27].
—Proportion of deaths at the hospital there, [195].
Salt, the good effects of it in diet, [314].
Sandwich, health of, on her first arrival, [19].
Scorches, great numbers killed and wounded in this manner, [190].
Scurvy, in a cruise to windward of Martinico, [49].
—In a cruise near Jamaica, [121].
—High degree of it in the Nonsuch, ibid.
—On the passage to New York, [148].
—Why less of it in the ships last from England, [147].
—Its rapid progress in the latter part of a cruise, [148], & seq.
—Method of curing it on board of the fleet at New York, [151].
—Numbers that died of it according to Sir Richard Hawkins, [214].
—In Commodore Anson’s Squadron, ibid.
Scurvy, observations on it, [499].
—What meant by the latent state of it, [505].
—The best remedies for it, [506], & seq.
—In what manner the nature of the diet induces it, [509].
—Whether it is infectious, [516].
Seasons in the West Indies, account of them, [28], & seq.
Ships, new, not more unhealthy than others, [19], [52].
—Disadvantage in changing their commanders, [80].
—Why large ones most sickly, [128], [133], [253].
Shingle ballast, the advantage of it, [289].
Shoes of great use to seamen, [339].
Sick, what the best place for them in a ship, [262].
Sickness, method of calculating the proportion of it, [90].
Situation, effects of the difference of it upon health, [28].
Small-pox very prevalent in the fleet, [85].
Sope supplied on board of the fleet, [145].
—Its great utility, [151], [257].
Sour krout, manner of using it, [305].
Splinters more destructive than balls, [103].
Spices good against noxious air, [230].
Spruce beer, the great advantage of it, [320].
Strangers communicate disease to each other without any apparent previous disease, [243].
Surf, danger from it in watering at St. Lucia, [88].
Surgeons, a greater proportion of mortality among them and their mates, [134].
—Advantage of encouraging them, [266].
Sweating of use in curing the ship fever, [388], & seq.
—In the dysentery, [475].
Sweet vegetables more antiscorbutic and medicinal in their natural state, [58].
T.
Tables, method of forming them, [90].
Tenaculam recommended in amputation, [543].
Thermometer, general range of it in the West Indies, [29].
—Observations on it at Port Royal, [124].
Thucydides, his observations on the plague at Athens, [296].
U.
Ulcers keep pace with scorbutic and feverish complaints, [132].
—Proportion of them, [150].
—Very frequent in the Barfleur, ibid.
—Great effect of a cold climate in diminishing them, [156].
—Form a considerable part of sea complaints, [221].
—Apt to arise in scorbutic habits, [339], [500], [505].
Uniform for common seamen recommended, [336].
Union remarkably healthy, [167].
—Subject only to inflammatory complaints, [173], [297].
Urine, appearance of it in the yellow fever, [437], [440], & seq.
V.
Venereal disease, the medicines best adapted to the various forms of it, [559].
Vernon, Admiral, health of his fleet compared with Lord Rodney’s, [131], [198].
—The first who caused the spirits allowed the seamen to be diluted, [324], & seq.
Victory, 12th of April, 1782, [99].
—Its effects on the health of the men, [101], & seq.
Ville de Paris, sickness and mortality on board after being captured, [115].
—Foundered, [210].
Vinegar, use of it in the navy, [302].
—In the Roman armies, ibid.
Vitriol, white, used as a remedy in intermittent fevers, [462].
Vomit, black, the most dangerous symptom in the yellow fever, [436].
W.
Wall, Dr. recommends opium in low fevers, [393].
War, why fleets most sickly in the beginning of it, [69].
Warren, Dr., his successful treatment of a case of the locked jaw, [532].
Water of springs preferable to running water, [324].
—Quick lime the best preservative of it, [326].
—Various other means of correcting it, [329].
—Distillation from sea water recommended, [332].
Watering duty dangerous and unwholesome, [88], [118].
Well of a ship, great danger of foul air in it, [285].
—Method of preventing it, ibid.
Wind of a ball, the effects of it, [537].
Wine, the great advantage of it in the French fleet, [322].
—Superior to spirits, [324].
—Its utility in continued fevers, [410].
Women, why not so subject to acute diseases in the West Indies as men, [234].
Wounds, number that died of, [209].
—Account of those received in April, 1782, [520].
Y.
Yams used in place of bread, [76].
Yellow fever, [425].
Yellowness of the skin not always a symptom of malignity, [181].
Z.
Zinc, effects of it in obstinate intermittent fevers, [456].
—Cases in which it is proper, [461].