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A practical account of the Mediterranean fever, as it appeared in the ships and hospitals of His Majesty's Fleet on that station : with cases and dissections. To which are added facts and observations, illustrative of the causes, symptoms and treatment comprehending the history of the fever in the Fleet, during the years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813 : and of the Gibraltar & Carthagena fevers / by William Burnett.
Burnett, William, Sir, 1779-1861.Date: 1816
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Front and reverse of a medal presented to Jenner by naval medical officers in 1801. Engraving, 1801, after a medal made by T. Harper.
Harper, Thomas, active 1801.Date: 1801Reference: 20204i
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Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen. In three volumes / by Thomas Trotter.
Thomas TrotterDate: 1804
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Synopsis morborum : A summary view of observations on the principal diseases incident to seamen or soldiers, whether engaged in actual service or retired from it, carefully abridged and digested, from the latest ed. of the author's works, in four volumes. Designed chiefly for the use of professional practitioners in the navy and army. In two volumes.
Robert RobertsonDate: 1810-11
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Die Krankheiten in der Marine : geographisch und statistisch nach den reports on the health of the Royal Navy / dargestellt von C. Friedel.
Friedel C. (Carl), 1833-1885.Date: 1866
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The medical quarters of the Melbourne, a ship of the Line: a ward deck, above, and an operating theatre, below. Wood engraving, 1860.
Date: 1860Reference: 39506i
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A view of the diseases of the army in Great Britain, America, the West Indies, and on board of king's ships and transports, from the beginning of the late war to the present time : together with monthly and annual returns of the sick and some account of the method in which they were treated in the Twenty-ninth Regiment, and the Third Battalion of the Sixtieth Regiment / by Thomas Dickson Reide.
Reide, Thomas DicksonDate: 1793
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A practical account of the fever commonly called the bilious remittent, as it appeared in the ships and hospitals of the Mediterranean fleet : with cases and dissections : to which are added, facts and observations, illustrative of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of fever, in the Mediterranean, comprehending the history of fever in the fleet, during the years 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, and of the Gibraltar & Carthagena fevers / by William Burnett, M.D., physician of the fleet, late physician and inspector of hospitals to His Majesty's fleet in that sea.
Burnett, William, Sir, 1779-1861.Date: 1814
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An essay upon pestilential diseases, such as the putrid, malignant, and yellow fevers, and the plague; with an account of an infectious fever, or plague, which broke out and raged with great mortality on board His Majesty's Ship Surprise, in the year 1776, on the Banks of Newfoundland; ... and upon the most effectual means of destroying contagion or infection, by quick-lime, and the fumes of the sulphuric acid.
Rymer, James, active 1770-1833.Date: 1805
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Memoir of Sir Benjamin Fonseca Outram, CB., M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Inspector of naval hospitals and of fleets.
Benjamin Fonseca OutramDate: 1856
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Boer War: the ward of a hospital ship in which a nurse converses with an anxious lady and her daughter. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.
Dickinson, F. C.Date: 1899Reference: 23567i
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Some account of the diseases that prevailed in two voyages to the East Indies, in the Carnatic East-Indiaman, during the years 1793-98; together with observations and medical remarks, in a series of letters to John Hunter / by John Milne.
Milne, John, 1775-1841.Date: 1803
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Disease in the merchant navy : a history of the Seamen's Hospital Society / Gordon C. Cook.
Gordon Charles CookDate: [2007], ©2007
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Official testimonies of the benefits arising from the essence or extract of malt : as used in the British Navy, for making wort at sea consisting of short extracts from the best writers; from medical journals kept on board the King's ships; and from the testimony of surgeons ... / prepared and sold by Holdsworth & Barnard ... under the encouragement and protection of His Majesty's letters patent, granted to the late Mr. Thornton.
Holdsworth & BarnardDate: 1783
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An examination of the chief causes of disease at sea in the era of the Tudors and Stewarts, and of the measures taken against it.
Moore, Alan Hilary (Sir)Date: 1911
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Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins : et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé dans les ports et à la mer / par P.F. Kéraudren.
Kéraudren, P. F. (Pierre Francois), 1769-1857.Date: 1817
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Des maladies qui attaquent les européens dans les pays chauds et dans les longues navigations / par Nicola Fontana ... traduit de l'italien par Venissat, revu et publié par P. F. Keraudren.
Fontana, Nicola.Date: 1818
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A letter respectfully addressed to the Commissioners for Transports, Sick and Wounded Seamen, etc., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism. Illustrated by cases, and the description of a new instrument / by Alex. Copland Hutchison.
Date: 1811
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Public health: a popular introduction to sanitary science : being a history of the prevalent and fatal diseases of the English population from the earliest times to the close of the war of the French revolution in 1815 / by William A. Guy.
William Augustus GuyDate: 1874
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A continuation of the account of the nature causes, symptoms and cure of the distempers that are incident to seafaring people : illustrated with some remarkable instances of the sicknesses of the fleet during the last summer, historically related : to which is prefix'd an essay concerning the quantity of blood that is to be evacuated in fevers : being the third part of the work / by William Cockburn.
William CockburnDate: 1697
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Attracta Genevieve Rewcastle, first woman doctor to the Royal Navy; with Sister A.M. King (right). Photograph, 1940.
Date: 17 July 1940Reference: 47690i
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Remarks on schools of instruction for military and naval surgeons, in a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, bart. / by Sir George Ballingall.
Date: [1843?]
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An account of the nature, causes, symptoms, and cure of the distempers that are incident to seafaring people : with observations on the diet of the sea-men in His Majesty's navy : illustrated with some remarkable instances of the sickness of the fleet during the last summer, historically related / by W.C.
William CockburnDate: 1696
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Some account of a fever in the year 1831 / by George Leith Roupell.
Roupell, George Leith, 1797-1854.Date: 1837
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Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease ; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. Bell ; ... / by John Butter.
Butter, John, 1791-1877.Date: 1825