Naval Medicine
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Official report on the fever which appeared on board His Majesty's ship Bann, on the coast of Africa, and amongst the detachment of Royal Marines forming the garrison of the Island of Ascension, in the year 1823
Medical and surgical memoirs
Notes on experiences during the Russo-Japanese Naval War 1904-5
Some account of the diseases that prevailed in two voyages to the East Indies, in the Carnatic East-Indiaman, during the years 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797 & 1798
Observations on the diseases of seamen
On the influence of sea-voyages on the human body, and their value in the treatment of consumption
Sea diseases: or, a treatise of their nature, causes, and cure. Also, an essay on bleeding in fevers; shewing, the quantities of blood to be let, in any of their periods
Observations on diseases incident to seamen, whether employed on, or retired from actual service, for accidents, infirmities or old age
Observations on the jail, hospital, or ship fever ... 1776 ... 1789, made in various parts of Europe and America, and on the intermediate seas
An account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of seawater, by blowing showers of air up through the distilling liquor
Survival on land and sea
The Diseases incident to Armies
Annual report
The prize of all the oceans
James Lind, founder of nautical medicine
Observations on the diseases of seamen
Observations on the diseases in long voyages to hot countries, and particularly on those which prevail in the East Indies
Epoch-making books in British surgery
Observations on the diseases of seamen
Battle station sick bay
An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer
Medicine Under Sail
A letter, respectfully addressed to the commissioners for transports, sick and wounded seamen, &c., &c., &c., on the subject of the operation for popliteal aneurism
Annual report of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States
Scurvy
A letter to the critical reviewers, on the most effectual means of preventing sickness in His Majesty's fleets and diminishing the expences of maritime service
The naval surgeon
Doctors at sea
Regulations and instructions, for the medical officers of His Majesty's Fleet
The seaman's medical advocate, or, An attempt to shew that five thousand seamen are, annually, during war, lost to the British nation, in the West-India merchants' service, and on-board ships of war on the West-India station, through the yellow fever, and other diseases and means, from causes which, it is conceived, are chiefly to be obviated, and unconnected with the misfortunes of war or dangers of the seas
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