CONTENTS.
| [PART I.] |
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| [BOOK I.] |
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| [Comprehending the Medical History of the Fleet, from March 1780, till August 1781] | 17 |
| [CHAP. I.] |
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| [Account of the Health of the Fleet from March 1780, till July following] | ib. |
| [CHAP. II.] |
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| [Account of the Health of the Fleet from August 1780, till December following] | 35 |
| [CHAP. III.] |
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| [Account of the Health of the Fleet from January 1781, till July 1781, both Months included] | 46 |
| [BOOK II.] |
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| [Continuation of the Medical History of the Fleet, from August 1781, till the Conclusion of the War in April 1783] | 63 |
| [CHAP. I.] |
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| [Some Account of the Interval between the Campaigns of 1781, and the Junction of the Reinforcement from England in April 1782] | ib. |
| [CHAP. II.] |
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| [Account of the Health of the Fleet from the Junction of the Squadron from England, till the general Rendezvous at St. Lucia, in the beginning of April] | 75 |
| [CHAP. III.] |
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| [State of Health of the Fleet in April 1782] | 98 |
| [CHAP. IV.] |
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| [Account of the Health of the Fleet while it lay at Jamaica, during May, June, and part of July, 1782] | 109 |
| [CHAP. V.] |
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| [Account of the Health of the Fleet from its leaving Jamaica on the 17th of July 1782, till its Departure from New York on the 25th of October following] | 139 |
| [CHAP. VI.] |
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| [Account of the Health of the Fleet from its Departure from New York till the Conclusion of the War] | 158 |
| [BOOK III.] |
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| [Of the Numbers and Mortality of different Diseases sent to Hospitals, with a general View of the whole Mortality during the War] | 185 |
| [PART II.] |
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| [Of the Causes of Sickness in Fleets, and the Means of Prevention] | 211 |
| [Introduction] | ib. |
| [CHAP. I.] |
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| [Of Air] | 225 |
| [Sect. I. Of the noxious Effects of Land Air in particular Situations] | 227 |
| [Sect. II. Of the Effects of foul Air from the Neglect of Cleanliness in Men’s Persons—Infection] | 237 |
| [1. Means of preventing the Introduction of Infection] | 240 |
| [2. Means of preventing the Production of Infection] | 254 |
| [3. Means of eradicating Infection] | 264 |
| [Sect. III. Of the foul Air generated in a Ship] | 281 |
| [---- IV. Means of guarding against Infection and bad Air] | 293 |
| [CHAP. II.] |
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| [Of Aliment] | 300 |
| [Sect. I. Of solid Food] | ib. |
| [---- II. Of Drink] | 319 |
| [Of Water] | 324 |
| [CHAP. III.] |
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| [Of Clothing] | 334 |
| [CHAP. IV.] |
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| [Of Exercise] | 343 |
| [Conclusion] | 349 |
| [Appendix to Part II.] | 352 |
| [Memorial to the Admiralty] | ib. |
| [Supplement to the Memorial] | 364 |
| [PART III.] |
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| [Description and Treatment of the Diseases most frequently occurring in Fleets in hot Climates] | 368 |
| [CHAP. I.] |
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| [Of Fevers] | 370 |
| [1. Of the infectious Ship Fever] | 371 |
| [2. Of the bilious Remitting Fever] | 415 |
| [3. Of the Yellow Fever] | 425 |
| [4. Of the Effects of some unusual Remedies in the Cure of obstinate Intermittent Fevers] | 456 |
| [CHAP. II.] |
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| [Of Fluxes] | 466 |
| [CHAP. III.] |
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| [Of Scurvy] | 499 |
| [CHAP. IV.] |
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| [Of the Wounds received in the Actions of April 1782] | 519 |
| [Appendix to Part III.] | 545 |
| [Assortment of Medicines to be carried to Sea] | 548 |
| [Formulæ Medicamentorum] | 550 |
DEDICATION.
TO HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS
Prince WILLIAM-HENRY.
SIR,
The following Work is the fruit of several years labour employed in the Public Service, chiefly under that great and successful Admiral, Lord Rodney, in a series of Naval Operations, which have been productive of events more glorious than any recorded in the Annals of Britain. As your Royal Highness was present during some part of the service which is the subject of these Observations, and as You have not only honoured the Sea Service by embracing it as a profession, and enrolling your illustrious Name among its officers, but in undergoing the dangers and fatigues of actual service, which is so necessary to attain that practical Skill which Your Royal Highness is well known to possess, I have, upon these grounds, presumed to lay this Work at Your feet. I should do this with greater satisfaction, were it more worthy of Your acceptance; but however inadequate my abilities may have been to the talk, it has been my sincere aim to produce a work of some utility to that only Bulwark of our Country, the British Navy, of which your Royal Highness is the Pride and the Hope.
Your Royal Highness’s Permission to inscribe this work to You, and the personal Notice and Protection with which you have been pleased to honour me, I consider as the first Distinctions of my life, and of which I shall ever entertain a becoming sense, by cherishing those indelible sentiments of Respect, Gratitude, and Attachment, which are due to Your Royal Highness from
Your Royal Highness’s
Most faithful,
Most obedient, and
Most devoted Servant,
GILBERT BLANE.
London,
May 1, 1785.