Medical and chemical essays : Containing: Additional observations on scurvy, with cases and miscellaneous facts in reply to Dr. Beddoes, and others ... Communications from New South Wales, on scurvy and other intereting subjects. The case of a blue boy belonging to His Majesty's ship London ... Thoughts on the decomposition of water, and a method of preserving it pure and sweet in long voyages ... / by Thomas Trotter.

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1795
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Credit: Medical and chemical essays : Containing: Additional observations on scurvy, with cases and miscellaneous facts in reply to Dr. Beddoes, and others ... Communications from New South Wales, on scurvy and other intereting subjects. The case of a blue boy belonging to His Majesty's ship London ... Thoughts on the decomposition of water, and a method of preserving it pure and sweet in long voyages ... / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thought myfelf juftified in making compa- rative trials of any articles in this man’s complaints. Patients affeded like him will often drop from our hands when we very little exped it. He is to take a pint of water, to which is to be added, concentrated acid of tartar, fufficient to give it the ufual acidity. What I mean by the ufual acidity, is enough to en- danger gripes in the bowels, without how- ever effecting therm This has always been the only rule adopted in exhibiting the citric acid. Two drams of the concentrated acid of tartar give a {harp tafte, if well prepared, to a pint of water. Second day. Complains lefs of pain, and appears in better fpirits than yefterday. Third day. No change for the better : complains much of pain and wearinefs.— Let the quantity of acid be increafed, D Fourth