Volume 3

Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen ... / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Thomas Trotter
Date:
1804
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Credit: Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen ... / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    always been confidered as a public day; and even on this occafion every furgeon of the fleet was pre- fent. An Admiralty order direéted my future at- tendance at all furveys afterwards. April 23d.—Arrived the Ruffel from Torbay, having a typhus fever on board.—This contagion was diftinétly traced to a man fent from Plymouth hofpital, who brought with him his clothes in as dirty a condition as he had carried them on fhore. [See the able account of the furgeon, under the ar- ticle Typhus. ] April 24th.—-This day the captains of the fleet received Admiralty orders to put themfelves under the command of Admiral Ear) St. Vincent. May 8th.—I tranfmitted the account of the fick me fs on board the Centaur, as eftablifhed by Cap- tain Markham, to the Admiralty; and enforced the utility of its general practice throughout the navy, by all the arguments I could produce, as my Jaft attempt to fecure a comfortable diet for the fick. on board.—(Vide the article Diet.}—Mr. Nepean, in return, informed me that he had laid this letter before their Lordfhips. At this time, and for eight weeks pift, there has appeared a general difpofition .to typhus fever order of the Admiralty, the governor thought he was empow- ered to exclude me from the hofpital altogether. The cap- tains prefent afferted their own authority, and the fervice tri-— umphed. This bufinefs difrufed general fatisfaétion through- out the fleet. This volume contains facts fufficient to justify a watchful eye over hofpital eftablifhments. The future fur. veys are reported to have been rather meliorated from my at- tendance. Buton this occafion, had my opinion been taken, the whole of the Edgar’s and Pompee’s people fhould have Regen ene to their fhips, without a fingle queftion being afked. . a In