Note 385 — PHARMACOLOGIA. (continued 2)

The same strumous affection occurs at Sumatra, where ice and snow are never seen; while, on the contrary, the disease is quite unknown in Chili and Thibet, although the rivers of these countries are chiefly supplied by the melting of the snow with which the mountains are covered. The trials of Captain Cook, in his voyage round the world, prove the wholesomeness of Ice water beyond a doubt; in the high southern latitudes he found a salutary supply of fresh water in the ice of the sea; “this melted ice,” says sir John Pringle, “was not only sweet but soft, and so wholesome as to shew the fallacy of human reasoning unsupported by experiments.”