℞. Aquæ puræ paullulum tepefactæ congios triginta, syrupi _melasses_ dicti libras sedecim pondere, extracti pini uncias octo pondere, spumæ vel fæcis cerevisiæ libras duas mensurâ. Misce & agita valide cum baculo, dein sinatur abire in fermentationem, ut fiat cerevisia, deinde servetur in vase clauso. Ut diutius servari potest, proderit admiscere spiritûs vini tenuis Gallici, vel qui _rum_ dicitur, libras duas aut tres. Si infirma fuerint viscera adjicere juvabit vel lupuli vel summitatum absinthii vel quassiæ, vel zinziberis quantum satis sit. Hauriat æger libras duas quotidie. ℞. Farinæ avenaceæ libras tres, aquæ puræ congios quatuor. Misce. Macera donec liquor fiat acidulus, dein effunde dimidium & adjiciatur par copia aquæ puræ, & coque ad idoneam spissitudinem, ut cogatur in pulmentum. Sit pro victu assiduo cum vini & sacchari non purificati, vel syrupi _melasses_ dicti quantum sufficiat ad gratum saporem conciliandum. Ad alvum solvendam commode adhiberi potest electuarium eccoproticum cum crystallis tartari. Vid. p. 556. THE END. INDEX. A. ABSORBENTS useful in fluxes, 491, _& seq._ _Action_, close, the advantages of it, 103, _& seq._ _Air_, superiority of that at sea, 225. --Noxious effects of it at land in a hot climate, 227. --Extent of its influence, 228. _Alcide_, sickly on the passage to America, 36. --Subject to various forms of fevers, 39. _Aliment_, want of proper, chief cause of scurvy, 300. --Increases the vigour of the body in two ways, 510. _America, North_, hotter in summer than the West Indies, 30. --Fleet goes there to avoid the hurricanes, 35, 146. --Uncommon season there, 156, _& seq._ _Amputation_, the number that died of it at Barbadoes, 190. _Amputation_, Mr. Alanson’s method of performing it, 543. _Antimonials_, best adapted to bilious fevers, 420. --A caution with regard to them, 422. _Army_ at St. Lucia, diseases in it, 127. --Mortality in it, 27, 228, _& seq._ _Asthma_, climate in the West Indies favourable to it, 97. B. _Barbadoes_, more refreshments at it than any other island, 27. --Ravaged by a hurricane, 41. --Composed of coral rock, 89. --Conjecture concerning its origin, _ibid._ _Barfleur_, fevers on board in consequence of recruits from a French jail, 142. _Bark, Peruvian_, its effects in preventing fevers, 230, _& seq._ --When useful in continued fevers, 390, _& seq._, 402, 422, _& seq._ _Bark, Peruvian, red_, some account of it, 457. _Barricading a ship_, what meant by it, 21. _Bath, warm_, of use in the dysentery, 480. --In the locked jaw, 522. --Its proper temperature, 535. _Battle_, the ardour of, favourable to health, 22, 77, 101. --Number killed in, 209. --Loss in those of April, 1782, 520. _Bedding_, utility of airing it, 260.