The case of Mr. Smith, Surgeon, at Sudbury, in Suffolk; the coats of whose stomach were changed into an almost cartilaginous substance.

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[1750]
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Credit: The case of Mr. Smith, Surgeon, at Sudbury, in Suffolk; the coats of whose stomach were changed into an almost cartilaginous substance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tp 3 ww/r APPEND fiso T O T H E London Magazine : z [OURNAL of the Proceedings and Deb^-tIis in the Political Club, continued from Page 544. As the Number of Seamen employed in the publick Service vcas laf Year very much reduced, I Jhall novo give you two very remarkable Speeches made in our Clitb upon that . Subject, the firfl of which was made by C. Numifius, and was in Sub- fiance as follows, viz. Mr. Y ref dent t SIR, SHALL readily g agree with the Hon. gentlemen, who have moved for the num¬ ber of feamen pro- pofed to be kept in pay for thefervice oftheenfuingyear, that this nation had never more oc- q cafion for frugality in every branch of the publick expence than it has at pre¬ sent ; but it feemsto me to be a ftrange piece of ceconomy, to diminifti our naval force, when at the fame time we are increafing the number of R- ■tN. Appendix, 1750, •t, Efqj our land forces, or at lead not di- miniihing it fo much as by one man lefs than we had laft year. This, I fay. Sir, is a ftrange fort of ceconomy, conlidering our lituation ; and fuch a one, as might make people be¬ lieve, that thofe who advifed and drew up the eftimates for our fea and land force, imagined, that they were drawing up eftimates for the French government, and not for ihat of England. In France, indeed, they muft keep up a numerous Hand¬ ing army, not only for defending their wide extended frontier, but to enforce the abfolute power of their king ; and therefore in time of peace they muft be more frugal as to their naval expence, than they can well be as to that of their army : But here in England we have no frontier to defend by a land army, and our fovereign defires not to eftablilh his power upon any thing but the affec¬ tions of his fubjedts: Our ftrength confifts in our navy ; and that we ought chiefly to depend on for of- 4 D fence