Author: Sir Alexander Armstrong
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Observations on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy, More Particularly as the Latter Appeared During a Polar Voyage
Author: Sir Alexander Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Observations on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy
Author: Alexander Armstrong
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330324332
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Excerpt from Observations on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy: More Particularly as the Latter Appeared During a Polar Voyage The Observations contained in the following pages are not presented as a systematic Treatise on either Hygiene or Scurvy; but as they are of a practical nature, it has occurred to me that they might not prove an unacceptable addition to the knowledge which we at present possess on these subjects. Those on Scurvy have been compiled from the Journal of my Practice, kept during a prolonged period of service in H.M.S. "Investigator," in the Arctic Regions, for which Sir Gilbert Blane's gold medal has been recently awarded to me. With the permission of the present Director-General of the Navy (Sir John Liddell, C.B.), that Journal has been temporarily placed at my disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330324332
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Excerpt from Observations on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy: More Particularly as the Latter Appeared During a Polar Voyage The Observations contained in the following pages are not presented as a systematic Treatise on either Hygiene or Scurvy; but as they are of a practical nature, it has occurred to me that they might not prove an unacceptable addition to the knowledge which we at present possess on these subjects. Those on Scurvy have been compiled from the Journal of my Practice, kept during a prolonged period of service in H.M.S. "Investigator," in the Arctic Regions, for which Sir Gilbert Blane's gold medal has been recently awarded to me. With the permission of the present Director-General of the Navy (Sir John Liddell, C.B.), that Journal has been temporarily placed at my disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Observations on naval hygiene and scurvy
Author: Sir Alexander Armstrong
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Category : Naval hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Publisher:
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Category : Naval hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Observations on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy, During a Polar Voyage
Observations on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy, More Particularly as the Latter Appeared During a Polar Voyage. By Alex Armstrong, M.D., R.N., Etc. Etc. Author of A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-west Passage
Author: Alexander Armstrong
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Category : Naval hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Category : Naval hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Observations on the Diseases of Seamen
Author: Sir Gilbert Blane
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Category : Epidemiology
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Epidemiology
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Observations on the Diseases of Seamen
Author: Sir Gilbert Blane
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Observations on the Diseases Incident to Seamen
Author: Sir Gilbert Blane
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Observations on the Scurvy
Author: Thomas Trotter
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Category : Scurvy
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Scurvy
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Limeys
Author: David I. Harvie
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In 1740, Commodore George Anson left Portsmouth with seven ships and nearly 2,000 men. He returned four years later with under 600. Only four were killed by the enemy; the rest died not as the result of war, weather or misnavigation, but of scurvy. Limeys is the dramatic history of Dr. James Lind's heroic efforts to find a cure for this 'dreaded disease' in the face of the corrosive patronage and establishment antipathy of the times. In the three centuries prior to 1800, it has been estimated that scurvy killed at least two million sailors. It was characterised by rotting gums, foetid breath, swelling limbs, malaise and hemorrhaging. Desperate men took any 'cure' offered - urine mouthwashes, sulphuric acid, bloodletting, even burial up to the neck in sand. Most died. In 1747 Lind, a Scottish Naval Surgeon, conducted the first practical medical research to find a cure. He recommended lemons, oranges and their juice. Yet he was unable to penetrate the Admiralty high-mindedness, or to persuade them to enforce the fruits' universal application. Only in 1795, when court physician Gilbert Blane championed Lind's work, were the Sea Lords persuaded to act. But by then, James Lind had been dead for a year and thousands had needlessly perished. From sailors, citrus fruits and 'Limeys' to the birth of Rose's Lime Juice Cordial, the world's first soft drink, this book tells the extraordinary, graphic and compelling story of the epic quest to conquer one of mankind's most terrible diseases.
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In 1740, Commodore George Anson left Portsmouth with seven ships and nearly 2,000 men. He returned four years later with under 600. Only four were killed by the enemy; the rest died not as the result of war, weather or misnavigation, but of scurvy. Limeys is the dramatic history of Dr. James Lind's heroic efforts to find a cure for this 'dreaded disease' in the face of the corrosive patronage and establishment antipathy of the times. In the three centuries prior to 1800, it has been estimated that scurvy killed at least two million sailors. It was characterised by rotting gums, foetid breath, swelling limbs, malaise and hemorrhaging. Desperate men took any 'cure' offered - urine mouthwashes, sulphuric acid, bloodletting, even burial up to the neck in sand. Most died. In 1747 Lind, a Scottish Naval Surgeon, conducted the first practical medical research to find a cure. He recommended lemons, oranges and their juice. Yet he was unable to penetrate the Admiralty high-mindedness, or to persuade them to enforce the fruits' universal application. Only in 1795, when court physician Gilbert Blane championed Lind's work, were the Sea Lords persuaded to act. But by then, James Lind had been dead for a year and thousands had needlessly perished. From sailors, citrus fruits and 'Limeys' to the birth of Rose's Lime Juice Cordial, the world's first soft drink, this book tells the extraordinary, graphic and compelling story of the epic quest to conquer one of mankind's most terrible diseases.