Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE SEAMAN’S Medical Instructor, IN A COURSE OF LECTURES ON ACCIDENTS AND DISEASES INCIDENT TO SEAMEN, IN THE VARIOUS CLIMATES OF THE WORLD. CALCULATED FOR SHIPS THAT CARRY NO SURGEON. The Whole delivered in a plain Language, and founded on a long and successful Experience. --------------------------------------------------------- By N. D. FALCK, M. D. --------------------------------------------------------- LONDON: PRINTED FOR EDWARD AND CHARLES DILLY. M,DCC,LXXIV. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PREFACE. If we consider the many benefits that navigation contributes to commerce in general, and how much the prosperity of nations are indebted to its source, we must without hesitation declare seamen, a most respectable part of mankind; and if we reflect a moment, on the many hazards and perils they are exposed to on that precarious element, and the advantages we reap from their toil, the common feelings of human society, must awake and remind us, not only how much we are obliged as social members, even from a motive of self interest, to study their preservation, but as fellow creatures, how forcibly our duty calls us to give them every aid in our power, and to lighten the burthen of their many toils. A ship at sea may be considered as a floating kingdom; and the subjects, however few in number, are not only liable to the same accidents as those on shore, but to many more, peculiar to that precarious and fluctuating element that surrounds them. For this reason there are many things requisite to be known by the mariners besides the art of conducting a ship from port to port.