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The Seaman's Medical Advocate - Or, an Attempt to Shew that Five Thousand Seamen Are, Annually, During War, Lost to the British Nation through the Yellow Fever (Paperback)
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The Seaman's Medical Advocate - Or, an Attempt to Shew that Five Thousand Seamen Are, Annually, During War, Lost to the British Nation through the Yellow Fever (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
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Written by a naval surgeon in 1798, this medical treatise provides
a frank and harrowing account of life in the British navy. Elliot
Arthy started his career as a surgeon's mate in the Africa and West
Indies merchant service. He eventually became a surgeon, and worked
on a slave ship for many years. In this publication he shows that
at least 5,000 seamen were lost to Britain annually through yellow
fever and other illnesses, a loss the nation could little afford
during wartime. Stressing the 'absolute necessity' for naval
surgeons, Arthy's treatise is divided into six parts: the first
examines the nature and causes of yellow fever; the second
discusses how seamen come into contact with the disease; the third
focuses on other causes of the loss of seamen on board ships of
war; the fourth on statistics. The fifth and sixth parts suggest
methods of prevention.
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