Historical Records of New Zealand Vol. II.
The Lords of the Admiralty to Lieutenant Cook
The Lords of the Admiralty to Lieutenant Cook.
* David McBride, author of several medical works, the best known of which is his Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Physics.
1st. |
The malt must be ground under the direction of the surgeon, and made into wort (fresh every day, especially in hot weather) in the following manner, viz.: Take one quart of ground malt and pour on it three quarts of boiling water, stir them well, and let the mixture stand close covered up for three or four hours, after which strain off the liquor. |
2nd. |
The wort so prepared is then to be boiled into a panada with sea-biscuit, or dried fruits usually carried to sea. |
3rd. |
The patient must take at least two meals a day on the said panada, and should drink a quart or more of the fresh infusion, as it may agree with him, every twentyfour hours. |
4th. |
The surgeon is to keep an exact journal of the effects of the wort in scorbutic and other putrid diseases not attended with pestilential symptoms, carefully and particularly noting down, previous to its administration, the cases in which it is given, describing the several symptoms, and relating the progress and effects from time to time, which journal is to be transmitted to us at the end of the voyage.* |
Given under our hands, the 30th July, 1768.
Ed. Hawke.
Percy Brett.
C. Spencer.