 | Charles Creighton - Epidemics - 1891 - 730 pages
...the men of other ships was this : he brought to sea with him certain bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to each one as long as it would last,...spoonfuls every morning fasting, not suffering them to eat anything after it till noon. This juice worketh much the better if the partie keepe short diet,... | |
 | Charles Creighton - 1891 - 734 pages
...the men of other ships was this : he brought to sea with him certain bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to each one as long as it would last,...spoonfuls every morning fasting, not suffering them to eat anything after it till noon. This juice worketh much the better if the partie keepe short diet,... | |
 | Charles Creighton - Epidemics - 1891 - 734 pages
...the men of other ships was this : he brought to sea with him certain bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to each one as long as it would last,...spoonfuls every morning fasting, not suffering them to eat anything after it till noon. This juice worketh much the better if the partie keepe short diet,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1892 - 472 pages
...the men of other ships was this : he brought to sea with him certain bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to each one as long as it would last, three spoonfuls every morning' (MARKHAM, p. 0:?). The virtue of this specific was afterwards wholly forgotten, and seamen were allowed... | |
 | Samuel Purchas - Africa - 1905 - 602 pages
...to doe of themselves. And the reason why the Generals men stood better in health then The best tne men o f other ships, was this : he brought to Sea...him certaine Bottles of the Juice of Limons, which hee gave to each one, as long as it would last, three spoonfuls every morning fasting : not suffering... | |
 | Samuel Purchas - Voyages and travels - 1905 - 592 pages
...doe of themselves. And the reason why the Generals men stood better in health then The best t ^1 e men o f other ships, was this: he brought to Sea with £ ' him certaine Bottles of the J uice of Limons, which hee gave to each one, as long as it would last, three spoonfuls every morning... | |
 | Michael B. Davies, John Austin, David A. Partridge - Health & Fitness - 1991 - 182 pages
...general's men stood better in health was this; he brought to sea with him bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to each one, as long as it would last, three spoonfuls every morning. . . By this means the general cured many of his men....' Later in the journey he repeated the process... | |
 | Joan Druett - Medicine, Naval - 2001 - 292 pages
...on an epoch-making voyage to the East Indies, Captain James Lancaster's Red Dragon was supplied with “certaine bottles of the juice of limons, which...as it would last, three spoonfuls every morning.” The three other ships of his little fleet, which did not carry the juice, were so devastated by scurvy... | |
 | Stephen R. Bown - History - 2005 - 280 pages
...other ships was this: he [Lancaster] brought to sea with him certain bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to each one, as long as it would last,...spoonfuls every morning, fasting; not suffering them to eat anything after it till noon. .. . By this means the general cured many of his men and preserved... | |
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the men of other ships was this : he brought to sea with him certaine bottles of the juice of limons, which he gave to each one as long as it would last, three spoonfuls every morning fasting, not suffering them to eate anything after it till noone. 