Observations on the Diseases of Seamen

Name: Observations on the Diseases of Seamen
Author: Blane, Gilbert, Sir

Blane, Gilbert, Sir

Medicine, Naval -- Early Works To 1800; Sailors -- Diseases

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  OBSERVATIONS

  ON THE

  DISEASES

  OF

  SEAMEN.

  BY

  GILBERT BLANE, M. D.

  F. R. S. S. LOND. AND EDIN.

  PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE PRINCE OF WALES,
  PHYSICIAN TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE,
  AND TO ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.

  THE SECOND EDITION,

  WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

  LONDON:

  Printed by JOSEPH COOPER;
  And sold by JOHN MURRAY, No. 32 Fleet Street;
  J. JOHNSON, St. Paul’s Church Yard;
  And by WILLIAM CREECH, in Edinburgh.

  M.DCC.LXXXIX.

 Nec Medici, nec Imperatores, nec Oratores, quamvis artis præcepta
 perceperint, quidquam magna laude dignum sine usu et excercitatione
 consequi possunt.

  CICERO.

CONTENTS.

  PART I.

  BOOK I.

  Comprehending the Medical History of the Fleet, from March 1780,
    till August 1781                                                  17

  CHAP. I.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet from March 1780,
    till July following                                            _ib._

  CHAP. II.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet from August 1780,
    till December following                                           35

  CHAP. III.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet from January 1781,
    till July 1781, both Months included                              46

  BOOK II.

  Continuation of the Medical History of the Fleet, from August
    1781, till the Conclusion of the War in April 1783                63

  CHAP. I.

  Some ACCOUNT of the Interval between the Campaigns of
    1781, and the Junction of the Reinforcement from England in
    April 1782                                                     _ib._

  CHAP. II.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet from the Junction
    of the Squadron from England, till the general Rendezvous at
    St. Lucia, in the beginning of April                              75

  CHAP. III.

  STATE of HEALTH of the Fleet in April 1782                          98

  CHAP. IV.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet while it lay at
    Jamaica, during May, June, and part of July, 1782                109

  CHAP. V.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet from its leaving Jamaica
    on the 17th of July 1782, till its Departure from New York
    on the 25th of October following                                 139

  CHAP. VI.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet from its Departure from
    New York till the Conclusion of the War                          158

  BOOK III.

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