1617 WOODALL, John (1570 – 1643)
The 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 was the surgeon-general to the East India Company. This was the first textbook for naval surgeons. Woodall, surgeon to Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, was an early advocate of limes and lemons as a preventive me…
GMN 2144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2726
1696 COCKBURN, William (1669 – 1739)
An 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 studied medicine at Leiden; he became famous on account of his secret remedy for dysentery. The book is a record of two years spent as a ship’s doctor.
GMN 2147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2734
1757 LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
An essay on the most effectual means, of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy.
Lind is regarded as the founder of naval hygiene in England. Besides his work on scurvy (see No.3713), he is notable for the above book, which deals not only with the men but also with the appalling conditions in whic…
GMN 2151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2746
1764 ROUPPE, Louis (1729 – 1780)
De morbis navigantium, liber unus. Accedit observatio de effectu extracti cicutae storkiano in cancro.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as Observations on diseases incidental to seamen. Translated from the Latin edition printed at Leyden. London: T. Carnan and F. Newbery…
GMN 12817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15063
1767 POISSONNIER-DESPERRIÈRES, Antoine (1723 – 1793)
Traité sur les maladies des gens de mer.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12578
1769 LARDIZÁBAL, Vicente de (1746 – 1814)
Consideraciones 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.
A treatise specifically concerning the health of sailors of the Real Compañia Guipuzcoana de Caracas (Royal Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas)-- Basque traders who had a monopoly on the Venezuelan trade. Digital facsimile…
GMN 13542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15819
1776 PRINGLE, Sir John (1707 – 1782)
A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners.
Besides his pioneer work in military medicine, Pringle did much to improve the conditions of sailors afloat. See also Nos. 2150 & 3714.
GMN 2156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2758
1784 GARDANNE, Jacques-Joseph de (1726 – 1786)
Des 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.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15634
1785 BLANE, Sir Gilbert (1749 – 1834)
Observations on the diseases incident to seamen.
William Hunter recommended Blane as private physician to Admiral Rodney; Blane sailed with him to the W. Indies and became physician to the British Fleet. He was held in great esteem in the navy and was instrumental i…
GMN 2158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/842
1797 –1803 TROTTER, Thomas (1760 – 1832)
Medicina nautica; an essay on the diseases of seamen. 3 vols.
Trotter has left an excellent account of the conditions of seamen at the beginning of the 19th century. His book includes an interesting theory of the causation of fevers. He worked hard to improve the conditions of t…
GMN 2159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/858
1807 CURTIS, Charles
An 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.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10992
1820 PARSONS, Usher (1788 – 1868)
Sailor'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.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link. This work underwent at least four editions, the last of which was published in 1851 under the title of Physician for ships....That edition include…
GMN 13168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15428
1832 FORGET, Charles-Polydore (1800 – 1861)
Médecine 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.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
GMN 13618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15898
1838 SANTY, Justin (1818 – )
Des maladies les plus fréquentes à bord des navires baleiniers, et de leur traitement.
On injuries and diseases of the crews of whaling voyages in particular. This was Santy's medical dissertation; dissertation and commercially published issues appeared from the same publisher the same year. Digital fac…
GMN 13790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16077
1851 WELLS, Sir Thomas Spencer (1818 – 1897)
The 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.
Digital facsimile of the second edition (1861) from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11345
1856 FONSSAGRIVES, Jean-Baptiste (1823 – 1884)
Traité 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.
One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 9667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11854
1857 FLETCHER, Frederick Dicker
The 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.
"The present edition of The Seaman's Medical Friend is a new book rather than a mere revision of an old one; since the whole of that portion which relates to the Preservation of health, and the symptoms and treatment …
GMN 9165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11344
1879 WILSON, Joseph
Naval hygiene. Human health and the means of preventing disease. With illustrative incidents principally derived from naval experience.
Includes chromolithographed plates. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1879) from Google Books at this link. WorldCat cites only this second edition with this title and Wilson's work of 1870 (No. 13077). Therefo…
GMN 13078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15330
1943 CRITCHLEY, MacDonald (1900 – 1997)
Shipwreck-survivors: A medical study.
Probably one of the first books on the medical aspects of this particular subject. "In this lecture it will be our purpose, first to describe the various ordeals which befall men after their ship has been lost, the cl…
GMN 9379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11562
1985 PLUCHON, Pierre
Histoire des médecins et pharmaciens de marine et des colonies.
GMN 13367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15638
