Original sentence: For example, a frigate with 240 men, equipped with stores for four months, carried more than hundred tons of drink.Fresh water was also collected when an opportunity presented itself en voyage, but watering places were often marshy, and in the tropics infested by malaria.He served at sea for a number of years, rising to the rank of post-captain, and being notable for his role in the Battle of Vizagapatam in 1804, for which he was knighted.In 1739, he entered the Navy as a Surgeons Mate, serving in the Mediterranean, off the coast of West Africa, and in the West Indies.In the 18th century sailors took along water and cordial and milk in casks.Lind's son, James Lind also embarked on a career with the navy
Edited sentence: A frigate with 240 men, equipped with stores for four months, carried more than a hundred tons of drinkable liquid.As a result, British seamen did not suffer from typhus, giving the British navy a significant competitive advantage over the French.Finding that typhus disappeared from the top floor of his hospital, where patients were bathed and given clean clothes and bedding, while it raged through the floors below where such hygiene measures were not in place, Lind recommended that sailors be stripped, shaved, scrubbed, and issued with clean clothes and bedding regularly.Fresh water was also collected when an opportunity presented itself en voyage, but watering places were often marshy, and in the tropics infested with malaria.In 1739, he entered the Navy as a Surgeon's Mate, serving in the Mediterranean, off the coast of West Africa and in the West Indies.In the 18th century sailors took along water, cordial and milk in casks.Lind's son, James Lind also embarked on a career with the navy, Serving at sea for a number of years, rising to the rank of post-captain, and being notable for his role in the Battle of Vizagapatam in 1804, for which he was knighted