Methods Of Sea Doctors

It is related that a lieutenant in command of one of her majesty's gunboats deemed the responsibility of the charge of a medicine chest too much f or him. Iminediately she was off soundinga the gallant officer mustered all hands and divided the contents of the chest eqnally, bo that each had "his whack and na mair." There are two other naval yarna in this connection well worth mentioning. A man-of-war doctor whose name ia unfortunately lost to posterity had a simple method of locating a man's ailment and alleviating it (save the mark!) by drastic and infallible remedies. He would tie a piece of tape around the waist of the complaining mariner, and command him to declare whether his pain existed above or below the tape. If above an emetic, if below a dose of salta