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Excerpt from Observations on the Diseases Incident to Seamen I met with feveral obftacles in inflituting mqurries purely medical to the extent I could have Wilhed. There is in the firlt plate, from the nature of the fubjee't; a great dif ficulty attending all praetical inquiries in. Medicine for in order to afcertain truth, in a manner that is fatisfae'cory to a mind habi-c tuated to chafie invef'tigation, there mutt be a feries of patient and attentive obfervatrons upon a great number of cafes, and the 'dif ferent trials mufi be varied, weighed, and compared, in order to form a proper ef'timate of the real efficacy of different remedies and modes of treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."