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I
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.
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THE
 
PREFACE.
If we consider the many benefits that navigationcontributes to commerce in general,and how much the prosperity ofnations are indebted to its source, we mustwithout hesitation declare seamen, a mostrespectable part of mankind; and if we reflecta moment, on the many hazards and perilsthey are exposed to on that precarious element,and the advantages we reap from theirtoil, the common feelings of human society,must awake and remind us, not only howmuch we are obliged as social members,even from a motive of self interest, tostudy their preservation, but as fellow creatures,how forcibly our duty calls us togive them every aid in our power, andto lighten the burthen of their manytoils.
iiA ship at sea may be considered as a floatingkingdom; and the subjects, however fewin number, are not only liable to the same accidentsas those on shore, but to many more,peculiar to that precarious and fluctuatingelement that surrounds them. For thisreason there are many things requisite to beknown by the mariners besides the art ofconducting a ship from port to port.
Of all the various knowledges that distinguishthe human species from the brute creation,what is of more value than that whichtends to the preservation of life and health? Ibelieve that every man who is actuated bymotives of philanthropy will with me wish,that mankind in general would advert moreto it in the principles of education, than whatthey at present do. Indeed it is astonishingthat so valuable an acquisition, as tohave some knowledge of the body we possess,and its preservation, should be so totally neglected,as to be entirely excluded fromeducation; an acquisition that not onlyii                        
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