 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 576 pages
...and a belief that the customary means are preferable. For instance, I was once in a line-of-battle ship, where the surgeon recommended dry holy stoning...on the lower deck, by the captain's orders, on the alleged principle of allaying the dust and sweetening the ship.1 In the following year, the same ship... | |
 | Military art and science - 1827 - 700 pages
...very striking and conclusive, " For instance, (saya our author,) I was once in a line of battleship, where the surgeon recommended dry holy stoning the...persevered in it. The consequences were, that the lancet wat kept going by the aurgeon, to retard the ravages of inflammatory disease, ocgame ship waa commanded... | |
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... suggestions of a surgeon, however salutary his injunctions may be; partly, it is true, because this is not the source from which orders should be issued ; and partly too, from a certain esprit du corps, and a belief that the customary means are preferable.... 