_Potatoes, raw_, a remedy for scurvy, 60. --Proposed as an article of victualling, 309, _& seq._ _Prudent_, effects of soaking her timbers in pickle, 81. _Pulmonic_ complaints, medicines adapted to them, 556. _Putrefaction_, simple, effluvia of it may produce fevers, 134, _& seq._ Q. _Quick lime_, the best preservative of water, 326, _& seq._ R. _Recruits_, new raised, the cause of sickness, 180. _Returns_, intention of them, 6, 7. --Specimens of them, 23. --Method of forming them into tables, 24. _Rheumatism_, forms of medicines adapted to it, 557. _Royal Oak_, cause of her health, 80. --Method of curing the scurvy on board, 81. _Ruby_, remarkably healthy, 167. S. _St. Lucia_, woody, mountainous, and rainy, 27. --Proportion of deaths at the hospital there, 195. _Salt_, the good effects of it in diet, 314. _Sandwich_, health of, on her first arrival, 19. _Scorches_, great numbers killed and wounded in this manner, 190. _Scurvy_, in a cruise to windward of Martinico, 49. --In a cruise near Jamaica, 121. --High degree of it in the Nonsuch, _ibid._ --On the passage to New York, 148. --Why less of it in the ships last from England, 147. --Its rapid progress in the latter part of a cruise, 148, _& seq._ --Method of curing it on board of the fleet at New York, 151. --Numbers that died of it according to Sir Richard Hawkins, 214. --In Commodore Anson’s Squadron, _ibid._ _Scurvy_, observations on it, 499. --What meant by the latent state of it, 505. --The best remedies for it, 506, _& seq._ --In what manner the nature of the diet induces it, 509. --Whether it is infectious, 516. _Seasons_ in the West Indies, account of them, 28, _& seq._ _Ships_, new, not more unhealthy than others, 19, 52. --Disadvantage in changing their commanders, 80. --Why large ones most sickly, 128, 133, 253. _Shingle ballast_, the advantage of it, 289. _Shoes_ of great use to seamen, 339. _Sick_, what the best place for them in a ship, 262. _Sickness_, method of calculating the proportion of it, 90. _Situation_, effects of the difference of it upon health, 28. _Small-pox_ very prevalent in the fleet, 85. _Sope_ supplied on board of the fleet, 145. --Its great utility, 151, 257. _Sour krout_, manner of using it, 305. _Splinters_ more destructive than balls, 103. _Spices_ good against noxious air, 230. _Spruce beer_, the great advantage of it, 320. _Strangers_ communicate disease to each other without any apparent previous disease, 243. _Surf_, danger from it in watering at St. Lucia, 88. _Surgeons_, a greater proportion of mortality among them and their mates, 134. --Advantage of encouraging them, 266. _Sweating_ of use in curing the ship fever, 388, _& seq._ --In the dysentery, 475.