_Sweet vegetables_ more antiscorbutic and medicinal in their natural state, 58. T. _Tables_, method of forming them, 90. _Tenaculam_ recommended in amputation, 543. _Thermometer_, general range of it in the West Indies, 29. --Observations on it at Port Royal, 124. _Thucydides_, his observations on the plague at Athens, 296. U. _Ulcers_ keep pace with scorbutic and feverish complaints, 132. --Proportion of them, 150. --Very frequent in the Barfleur, _ibid._ --Great effect of a cold climate in diminishing them, 156. --Form a considerable part of sea complaints, 221. --Apt to arise in scorbutic habits, 339, 500, 505. _Uniform_ for common seamen recommended, 336. _Union_ remarkably healthy, 167. --Subject only to inflammatory complaints, 173, 297. _Urine_, appearance of it in the yellow fever, 437, 440, _& seq._ V. _Venereal disease_, the medicines best adapted to the various forms of it, 559. _Vernon_, Admiral, health of his fleet compared with Lord Rodney’s, 131, 198. --The first who caused the spirits allowed the seamen to be diluted, 324, _& seq._ _Victory_, 12th of April, 1782, 99. --Its effects on the health of the men, 101, _& seq._ _Ville de Paris_, sickness and mortality on board after being captured, 115. --Foundered, 210. _Vinegar_, use of it in the navy, 302. --In the Roman armies, _ibid._ _Vitriol, white_, used as a remedy in intermittent fevers, 462. _Vomit, black_, the most dangerous symptom in the yellow fever, 436. W. _Wall, Dr._ recommends opium in low fevers, 393. _War_, why fleets most sickly in the beginning of it, 69. _Warren, Dr._, his successful treatment of a case of the locked jaw, 532. _Water_ of springs preferable to running water, 324. --Quick lime the best preservative of it, 326. --Various other means of correcting it, 329. --Distillation from sea water recommended, 332. _Watering duty_ dangerous and unwholesome, 88, 118. _Well_ of a ship, great danger of foul air in it, 285. --Method of preventing it, _ibid._ _Wind of a ball_, the effects of it, 537. _Wine_, the great advantage of it in the French fleet, 322. --Superior to spirits, 324. --Its utility in continued fevers, 410. _Women_, why not so subject to acute diseases in the West Indies as men, 234. _Wounds_, number that died of, 209. --Account of those received in April, 1782, 520. Y. _Yams_ used in place of bread, 76. _Yellow fever_, 425. _Yellowness_ of the skin not always a symptom of malignity, 181. Z. _Zinc_, effects of it in obstinate intermittent fevers, 456. --Cases in which it is proper, 461. FOOTNOTES: [1] These were the Conqueror, the Cornwall, and the Boyne, which were so damaged in the battles, that they were obliged to bear away for St. Lucia. [2] The following may serve as a specimen of these returns: