Three Systems of Selling Pig Iron. George Huntington Hull
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Author: George Huntington Hull
Number of Pages: 38 pages
Published Date: 06 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781130117912
Download Link: Three Systems of Selling Pig Iron
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of scurvy. In the same year, in the British West Indian fleet, having a strength of 12,109 men, the mortality was 1518 from disease alone, and but few of these deaths were due to yellow fever. It was in this same century that the Spanish ship Oriflamma, on her passage from Manila to Acapulco.a voyage, in those days, of nearly six months, was found at sea with her whole crew dead on board. Now, while it is not intended in this partial enumeration to convey the idea that all this sickness and death at sea were due entirely to a faulty construction of the ships themselves, it is very evident that much of it was due to that cause alone, and that nearly all of it was to some extent inseparably connected with it. During all this period, up to the beginning of the present century, the great diseases of the sea were fevers, scurvy, dysentery, and diarrhoea. While scurvy, on account of its great prevalence, its disgusting characteristics, and its practical abolition from the sea in 1796, has, in connection with its great mortality and its association with some of the most remarkable expeditions in history, attracted the eye of the whole world, typhus fever has been a more grievous and general cause of sickness and death. No one denies that the latter finds its cause in air contaminated by foul exhalations, derived in great part from the living human body, and incident to that crowding of human beings in filthy and contracted spaces. If citric acid be regarded as a preventive of the one disease, soap properly employed may be considered as almost of equal force in the other, --the one remedy dating its general use from about 1796, and the other not making its influence felt in the navies of the world until some years later. But the degree of cleanliness, dryness, and v..
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