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abscess acid affected Ammonia applied artery bandage becomes beef tea belly bleeding blister blood body boiling bone bowels Calomel Carbonate of Soda Castor Oil catheter cause chest cold Copaiba delirium diet difficulty of breathing disease Dislocation dose Dover's Powder drachm drink drops of Laudanum Emetic Epsom Salts eruption erysipelas fever finger fluid fracture frequently give given Goulard's Extract grains of Calomel gruel half a pint infection inflammation Ipecacuanha Jalap keep lancet Laudanum leeches limb linen lint Liquid Ammonia lotion medicine Mustard Plaster occur Ointment Opium ounce pain passed patient patient's strength poison poultice Powder pressure prevent pulse purging quantity Quinine relieve rheumatic Rhubarb rubbed rupture Senna ship side skin sometimes sore splint stimulants stomach pump surface swelling symptoms tablespoonful taken Tartar Tartaric Acid teaspoonful thigh throat tongue treatment twenty drops twenty grains urine usually Vitriol vomiting warm water wound
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Page 11 - Sea) shall also have on board a sufficient quantity of lime or lemon juice, sugar, and vinegar, to be served out to the crew whenever they shall have been consuming salt provisions for ten days : the lime or lemon juice and sugar daily, after the rate of half an ounce each per day ; and...
Page 12 - ... (2.) The owner of every ship navigating between the United Kingdom and any place out of the same shall provide and cause to be constantly kept on board such ship a supply of such medicines and medical stores...
Page 13 - Trade shall from time to time issue and cause to be published a scale of medicines and medical stores suitable to accidents and diseases arising on sea voyages : (2.) The owner of every ship navigating between the United Kingdom and any place out of the same shall provide and cause to be...
Page 12 - ... is owing to the act or default of the owner, such master may recover the amount of such penalty, and the costs incurred by him, from the owner.
Page 10 - Every master shall keep on board proper weights and measures for the purpose of determining the quantities of the several provisions and articles served out, and shall allow the same to be used at the time of serving out such provisions and articles, in the presence of a witness, whenever any dispute arises about such quantities, and in default shall, for every offense, be liable to a penalty of not more than $50.
Page 10 - Ship, before proceeding to Sea, shall produce to such Chief Officer of Customs a Certificate under the Hand of such Medical Inspector or of some other Medical Inspector, to the Effect that such Deficiency has been supplied or remedied, or that such improper Vessels have been replaced by proper Vessels, as the Case may require; and such Chief Officer of Customs shall not grant a Clearance for such Ship without the Production of such Certificate, and if such Ship...
Page 9 - Every such place shall be kept free from stores or goods of any kind, not being the personal property of the crew in use during the voyage : (4.) Every such place shall be properly caulked, and in all other respects securely and properly constructed and well ventilated : And if any such place in any ship...
Page 11 - The following rules shall be observed with respect to expenses attendant on illness and death ; (that is to say,) (1.) If the master or any seaman or apprentice receives any hurt or injury in the service of the ship to which he belongs, the expense of providing the necessary surgical and medical advice, with attendance and medicines, and of his subsistence until he is cured, or dies, or is brought back to some port in the United Kingdom...
Page 11 - Foreign-going Ship (except those bound to European Ports or to Ports in the Mediterranean Sea, and also except such Ships or Classes of Ships bound to Ports on the Eastern Coast of America North of the Thirty-fifth Degree of North Latitude and to any Islands or Places in the Atlantic Ocean North of the same Limit, as the Board of Trade may from Time to Time exempt from this Enactment,) shall...
Page 11 - That every ship navigating between the United Kingdom and any place out of the same, shall have and keep constantly on board a sufficient supply of medicines and medicaments suitable to accidents and diseases arising on sea voyages...