Sea Weeds: Poems, Written on Various Occasions, Chiefly During a Naval Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Sea Weeds: Poems, Written on Various Occasions, Chiefly During a Naval Life

The numerous imperfections of the medical establishment he very soon perceived and so early as 1782, he addressed a letter to the Navy Board, on the cruelty, impolicy, and disgrace of charging 158. To the seamen for certain cures. No notice was taken of this application; but he continued to animadvert on this degrading perquisite, till, by Earl Howe's influence, he got it redressed and abolished.

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