it is provided by statute that the ship shall be provided with a suitable chest of medicines, in good condition, put up by some the statute quantity of all the three articles be put on board, and there be a short allowance of all, triple extra wages are to be given for each day. Collins v. Wheeler, Sprague, 188.

(y) This follows from the rule that the seaman must show not only that he was put on short allowance, but also that the vessel sailed without haying on board the stores prescribed in the act The Ship Elizabeth v. Rickers, 2 Palne, C. C. 291; Ferrara v. The Barque Talent, Crabbe, 216; The Barque Childe Harold, Olcott, Adm. 275, 279; Piehl v. Balchen, Olcott, Adm. 24.

(s) See The Mary Paulina, Sprague, 46.

(t) See ante, p. *841, n. (w).

(b) The Mary Paulina, Sprague, 45; Coleman v. Brig Harriet, Bee, Adm. 80.

(c) Foster v. Sampson, Sprague, 182.

(d) If this be the law the article substituted must be a full equivalent both in quantity and quality. The Mary, Ware, 464.

(e) This was held a defence in Mariners v. Ship Washington, 1 Pet. Adm. 219. But not in Coleman v. Brig Harriet, Bee, Adm. 80. See also Foster v. Sampson, Sprague, 182.

(f) Mariners v. Ship Washington, 1 Pet. Adm. 219; The Mary, Ware, 460; The Mary Paulina, Sprague, 46; Ship Elisabeth v. Rickers, 2 Paine, C. C. 298.

apothecary of known reputation, and accompanied by directions for administering the same. (q) But it seems now to be well settled, that this requirement of a medicine-chest is no substitution (h) for the general requirement of the law-merchant, •which obliges every master or owner to provide suitable care, medicines, and medical treatment, for any seaman who becomes sick or injured in the discharge of his duty, at home or abroad, at sea or on land; (i) unless the sickness or injury be caused only by the fault of the sailor. (j)