A book of this size is soon perused; taking a lecture or a section at a leisure time on board, will soon send the reader through the whole; and I flatter myself, that one perusal will lead to the second, when then it may be referred to for advice with safety; and I hope a study so essential to self-preservation, will be viewed in a more agreeable light, than it has hitherto been.
To compleat the whole, a copper-plate is annexed, wherein the most material utensils are exhibited, which was scarce capable to be explained by bare description, to men unacquainted with surgery.
To conclude, I must beg leave to observe, that the respect and esteem, with which I have been constantly honoured by every worthy seaman, whose life and health were committed to my care, have I confess, stimulated my endeavours, to offer them this book as a grateful return. And I am happy to reflect, that my experience in life enables me to make it worth their acceptance. May they reap that benefit from it, which my heart has intended them; and this is all the reward I wish to obtain.
N. D. FALCK.
ERRATA.[[1]]
Page [5]. line 22. for cataplexy, read apoplexy. Page [6]. line 16. read, that a pressure on that part, not only occasions an apoplexy, but even stops life itself. Page [26]. line 17. for theirs, read thus. Page [35]. for Sect. vii. read viii. and following ix. x. Page [61]. line 4. for five or six, read about four or five. Line 21. for iniform, read inform. Page [91]. line 18. read, in order to get into. Page [131]. line 29. for purify, read putrefy. Page [135]. line 12. delete them. Page [142]. line 2. from the bottom, read, and is a sufficient. Page [158]. line 6. for malignitus, read malignities. Page [239]. line 7. read, the patient when not able to crawl to the tub, so revived &c.
[1]. These errors have been corrected for this ebook (May, 2019).
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