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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Maritime Medicine

Exhibiting 20 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1776 CEA discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners.
PRINGLE, Sir John (1707 – 1782)
PRINGLE, Sir John (1707 – 1782)
1807 CEAn account of the diseases of India, as they appeared in the English fleet, and in the naval hospital at Madras, in 1782 and 1783; with observations on ulcers, and the hospital sores of that country, &c. & c. To which is prefixed a view of the diseases of an expedition and passage of a fleet and armament to India, in 1781.
CURTIS, Charles
CURTIS, Charles
1696 CEAn account of the nature, causes, symptoms, and cure of the distempers that are incident in seafaring people. With observations on the diet of the sea-men in his Majesty’s navy.
COCKBURN, William (1669 – 1739)
COCKBURN, William (1669 – 1739)
1757 CEAn essay on the most effectual means, of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy.
LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
1769 CEConsideraciones politico-medicas sobre la salud de los navegantes, en que se exponen las causas de sus mas frecuentes enfermedades, modo de precaverlas, y curarlas. Con las conducentes instrucciones para el mejor régimen de los cirujanos de navíos, que hacen viage à la América, especialmente para los de la Real Compañia Guipuzcoana de Caracas, à fin de que con mayor acierto se conduzcan, asi en el méthodo curativo de los enfermos, como en el manejo de los botiquines de su cargo.
LARDIZÁBAL, Vicente de (1746 – 1814)
1764 CEDe morbis navigantium, liber unus. Accedit observatio de effectu extracti cicutae storkiano in cancro.
ROUPPE, Louis (1729 – 1780)
1784 CEDes maladies des créoles en Europe avec la maniere de les traiter et des observations sur celles des gens de mer et sur quelques autres plus fréquemment observées dans les climats chauds.
GARDANNE, Jacques-Joseph de (1726 – 1786)
1838 CEDes maladies les plus fréquentes à bord des navires baleiniers, et de leur traitement.
SANTY, Justin (1818 – )
1985 CEHistoire des médecins et pharmaciens de marine et des colonies.
PLUCHON, Pierre
1832 CEMédecine navale ou nouveaux éléments d'hygiène, de pathologie et de thérapeutique médico-chirurgicales, à l'usage des officiers de santé de la marine de l'Etat et du commerce. 2 vols.
FORGET, Charles-Polydore (1800 – 1861)
1797 CE​–1803 CEMedicina nautica; an essay on the diseases of seamen. 3 vols.
TROTTER, Thomas (1760 – 1832)
TROTTER, Thomas (1760 – 1832)
1879 CENaval hygiene. Human health and the means of preventing disease. With illustrative incidents principally derived from naval experience.
WILSON, Joseph
WILSON, Joseph
1785 CEObservations on the diseases incident to seamen.
BLANE, Sir Gilbert (1749 – 1834)
BLANE, Sir Gilbert (1749 – 1834)
1820 CESailor's physician, exhibiting the symptoms, causes and treatment of diseases incident to seamen and passengers in merchant vessels: With directions for preserving their health in sickly climates; intended to afford medical advice to such persons while at sea, where a physician cannot be consulted.
PARSONS, Usher (1788 – 1868)
1943 CEShipwreck-survivors: A medical study.
CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997)
1851 CEThe scale of medicines with which merchant vessels are to be furnished ... with observations on the means of preserving the health and increasing the comforts of merchant seamen.
WELLS, Sir Thomas Spencer (1818 – 1897)
WELLS, Sir Thomas Spencer (1818 – 1897)
1857 CEThe seaman's medical friend, a companion to the government medicine chest, intended for use in ships not carrying surgeons. Containing directions for the preservation of health and the cure of diseases, wounds, fractures, dislocations, and other accidents likely to occur at sea. Comprising also the Admiralty scale of medicines. Second edition.
FLETCHER, Frederick Dicker
1617 CEThe surgions mate, or, A treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest: the uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of the medicines, the cures of the most frequent diseases at sea: namely, wounds, apostumes, vlcers, fistulaes, fractures, dislocations, with the true maner of amputation, the cure of the scuruie, the fluxes of the belly, of the collica and illiaca passio, tenasmus, and exitus ani, the callenture; with a briefe explanation of sal, sulphur, and mercury; with certaine characters, and tearmes of arte.
WOODALL, John (1570 – 1643)
WOODALL, John (1570 – 1643)
1856 CETraité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.
FONSSAGRIVES, Jean-Baptiste (1823 – 1884)
1767 CETraité sur les maladies des gens de mer.
POISSONNIER-DESPERRIÈRES, Antoine (1723 – 1793)