  - A.
- Absorbents useful in fluxes, 491, & seq.
- Action, close, the advantages of it, 103, & seq.
- Air, superiority of that at sea, 225.
- —Noxious effects of it at land in a hot climate, 227.
- —Extent of its influence, 228.
- Alcide, sickly on the passage to America, 36.
- —Subject to various forms of fevers, 39.
- Aliment, want of proper, chief cause of scurvy, 300.
- —Increases the vigour of the body in two ways, 510.
- America, North, hotter in summer than the West Indies, 30.
- —Fleet goes there to avoid the hurricanes, 35, 146.
- —Uncommon season there, 156, & seq.
- Amputation, the number that died of it at Barbadoes, 190.
- Amputation, Mr. Alanson’s method of performing it, 543.
- Antimonials, best adapted to bilious fevers, 420.
- —A caution with regard to them, 422.
- Army at St. Lucia, diseases in it, 127.
- —Mortality in it, 27, 228, & seq.
- Asthma, climate in the West Indies favourable to it, 97.
- B.
- Barbadoes, more refreshments at it than any other island, 27.
- —Ravaged by a hurricane, 41.
- —Composed of coral rock, 89.
- —Conjecture concerning its origin, ibid.
- Barfleur, fevers on board in consequence of recruits from a French jail, 142.
- Bark, Peruvian, its effects in preventing fevers, 230, & seq.
- —When useful in continued fevers, 390, & seq., 402, 422, & seq.
- Bark, Peruvian, red, some account of it, 457.
- Barricading a ship, what meant by it, 21.
- Bath, warm, of use in the dysentery, 480.
- —In the locked jaw, 522.
- —Its proper temperature, 535.
- Battle, the ardour of, favourable to health, 22, 77, 101.
- —Number killed in, 209.
- —Loss in those of April, 1782, 520.
- Bedding, utility of airing it, 260.
- Bile, a defect of it in the worst cases of yellow fever, 429,& seq.
- —Theoretical disquisition on its influence in fevers, ibid.
- Bile, the marks of a redundance of it in dysenteries, 477.
- —Its tendency to prolong fluxes, 483, & seq.
- Blindness from the scurvy, 24, 501.
- Blisters of use in the ship fever, 399.
- —For removing irritability of stomach in the yellow fever, 453, & seq.
- —Of service in dysentery, 480, & seq.
- Blood, a remark concerning the buff upon it, 185.
- —At Gibraltar, 187.
- —At Barbadoes, 189, 197.
- —At St. Christopher’s, 195.
- —At St Lucia, ibid.
- —At Jamaica, 198.
- —At New York, 201, & seq.
- —General view of them all, 205.
- —Proportion of deaths in them no criterion of the success of practice, 195, 200.
- Hurricane months, 28.
- Hurricane, a violent one in the West Indies—its good effect on the health of the inhabitants, 40, & seq.
- Hypochondriac complaints do not affect the laborious part of mankind, 219.
- I.
- Jaw, locked, account of those affected by it in the battles of April, 1782, 520, & seq.
- —Its symptoms different from those of the tetanus, 526.
- —Wherefore most frequent in hot climates, 529, & seq.
- Indolence a cause of scurvy, 345.
- Infection, the obscurity of and difficulty of investigating it, 238.
- —Various ways in which it is introduced into a ship, 241.
- —It may arise without the presence of fever, 242.
- —Habit renders people insensible to it, ibid. & seq.
- —It never affects all indiscriminately who are exposed to it, 245.
- —It does not pass from one species of animal to another, 249.
- —How to prevent the production of it, 254.
- —Means of eradicating it, 264.
- —Method of guarding against it, 293.
- —Less frequent in hot climates than cold, 276.
- Inflammatory complaints most frequent in ships where no infection, 172.
- Inoculation, conjecture concerning the cause of its safety, 247.
- Intermittent fevers sometimes arise on board of a ship, 32.
- —Some unusual remedies for them, 456, & seq.q.
- Intestines, great, the principal seat of the dysentery, 470.
- L.
- Labour necessary to health, 217.
- —Pernicious if in excess, ibid.
- —What diseases it tends to avert, 219.
- —Scurvy prevented by it, 344.
- Land wind at Jamaica, 119.
- —Not at the small islands, ibid.
- Lemon juice, extraordinary instance of its efficacy in scurvy, 86.
- —The most effectual remedy in scurvy, 303.
- Lemons and limes, their juice the best detergent in scorbutic ulcers, 502, & seq.
- Lientery, a symptom in obstinate fluxes, 489.
- Limes, instance of their great antiscorbutic effect, 56.
- Liver, inflammation of it seldom known in the West Indies, 95.
- —But appeared at New York in men belonging to the West-India fleet, 156.
- M.
- Magnesia, given with acids, removes sickness of the stomach, 452.
- Malt liquor, the utility of it, 320.
- Malt, essence of, a weak antiscorbutic, 57, 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.
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