Diseases and injuries of seamen : with remarks on their enlistment, naval hygiene, and the duties of medical officers / by G.R.B. Horner.

  • G. R. B. Horner
Date:
1854
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    ] 62 below deck, and eat nothing, it continued indefinitely, and would recur during a whole cruise, whenever the weather was boisterous at sea. The above remark is most applicable to officers, not required to keep on deck or watch, and, from their rank, have it most in their power to indulge their inclinations. Hence, pursers, chaplains, marines, officers and doctors suffer most, and for the same reasons passengers are so af- flicted with the same complaint. It is, however, not con- fined to the sedentary or idlers, as persons not keep- ing watch are termed on board ship. During stormy weather I have known some of the most active and experienced watch officers to suffer, and among them a lieutenant, who after having suffered from sea- sickness in one of the frigates named, and being re- lieved by the creasote mixture, was transferred to a schooner, suffered so much, that at last his spine be- came affected ,he partially lost the use of his legs, and was condemned as an invalid. His increased suffering, from having changed vessels, was attributed to the much smaller size of the latter one, and the peculiar motion caused by the difference in the form of her sails, as well as her being so much more easily and violently affected by the waves. With the differ- ence between the motion of a large and small ship, I was never so much struck as when in the Macedonian, off Pernambuco. Though not the least affected by her action, I was made deadly sick by that of a Brazilian brig of war, cruising off there for Buenos- ayrean privateers, and on board of which myself and a boat's crew were taken a part of the distance be- tween the city and the frigate, which would not an-