| £. | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| For 3 handkerchiefs, at 1s. 6d. | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| For 12 pounds of sope, at 6d. | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| For 1 knife, at 1s. | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| For 1 pair of buckles, at 9d. | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 0 | 12 | 3 | |
| Suppose 3 shirts a year, the difference | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Suppose 3 pair of trowsers, ditto | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Suppose 1 milled cap | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Total £. | 0 | 18 | 9 |
[87] Had I then known the salutary effects of porter and spruce beer, of which I have since been convinced, I should have proposed them as substitutes for rum.
[88] The authenticity of this fact, as well as every other assertion in this work relating to the mortality in the fleet, may be proved from the ship’s books, deposited at the Navy Office.
[89] I fancied that my reasoning on this subject was in a great measure new; but I lately met with the following passages in Celsus and Hippocrates, which seem to be illustrative of the same idea:—Quibus causa doloris, neque sensus ejus est, his mens laborat. Celsus, Lib. ii. cap. vii. which is nearly a translation of the following aphorism of Hippocrates:—[Greek hOkosoi poneontes ti tou sômatos, ta polla tôn ponôn ouk a sthanontai, touteoisin hê gnômê noseei]. Hippoc. Aphor. Lib. ii. Aphor. 6.
The same principle is ingeniously explained by Mr. Hunter in his Lectures.
[92] The form of administering this medicine was to add twenty drops of thebaic tincture, from half a grain to a grain of emetic tartar, and from five to ten grains of nitre, to two ounces of water or camphorated julep, of which one half was given about two hours before the common hour of rest, and the remainder at that hour. If spiritus Mindereri is preferred to the nitre, it may be given from two drachms to half an ounce for a dose, and it is better to administer it separately; for if it should not be exactly neutralized, it may decompose the antimonial, and render it inactive.
[93] Since the publication of the first edition of this work, there has appeared a small tract on the treatment of low fevers, by Dr. Wall, of Oxford, and as his ingenuity and learning give him a just claim to the high rank he holds in his profession, attention is due to what he advances. The principal scope of the work is to recommend, from his own observation, the early use of opiates in those fevers, and the Doctor’s authority, as well as my own experience, convince me of the propriety of this practice in many cases occurring in this country, particularly among the lower sort of people, for whom spare diet and hard labour render evacuations less necessary than among the better sort. The inferior class of people are also more subject to this sort of fever from their houses and persons being less clean, and their apartments being worse ventilated; so that practice in these, as well as other cases, is to be varied according to the constitution and previous habits of life.