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Gilbert Blane

Scottish physician

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  • Observations on the muscles, and particularly on the effects of their oblique fibres: with an appendix, in which the pretension of Dr. Gilbert Blane, that he first demonstrated the same effect to be produced by oblique muscles as by straight ones, with a less proportional decurtation of fibres, is proved to be unfounded ... / [Alexander Monro].
  • Observations on the muscles, and particularly on the effects of their oblique fibres: with an appendix, in which the pretension of Dr. Gilbert Blane, that he first demonstrated the same effect to be produced by oblique muscles as by straight ones, with a less proportional decurtation of fibres, is proved to be unfounded ... / [Alexander Monro].

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  • Buildings and alumni of St Thomas's Hospital, London. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company.

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    Observations on the comparative prevalence, mortality, and treatment of different diseases / illustrated by abstracts of cases.

    Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834 | Date: 1813
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    Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.

    Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834. | Date: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
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    Observations on the diseases of seamen ... / by Gilbert Blane.

    Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834. | Date: 1789
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    Letters, etc., on the subject of quarantine.

    Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834. | Date: 1799
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    Select dissertations on several subjects of medical science / By Sir Gilbert Blane. Now first collected, with alterations and additions; together with several new and original articles.

    Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834. | Date: 1822

Frequent collaborators

Royal College of Physicians, London
Glasgow University Library
King's College London
St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School. Library

Related topics

Naval Medicine
Scurvy
Medicine, Naval
Merchant mariners
Vaccination
Medical logic
Logic
Epidemiology
Hygiene

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