The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach.

  • Leach, Harry.
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section 5. Any person who manufactures, sells, or keeps, or offers for sale, any such medicines or medical stores as aforesaid which are of bad quality shall for each such offence incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. Section 6. In any British possession out of the United King- dom, the governor, or officer administering the government for the time being, shall, subject to the laws of such possession, have power to make regu- lations concerning the supply within such possession of lime or lemon juice and anti-scorbutics for the use of ships ; and any lime or lemon juice or anti- scorbutics duly supplied in accordance with any such regulations, shall be deemed to be fit and proper for the use of ships. Section 7. Whenever it is shown that any seaman or appren- tice who is ill has, through the neglect of the master or owner, not been provided with proper food and water according to his agreement, or with such ac- commodation, medicines, medical stores, or anti-scor- butics as are required by the principal Act or by this Act, then, unless it can be shown that the illness has been produced by other causes, the owner or master shall be liable to pay all expenses properly and ne- cessarily incurred by reason of such illness (not ex-