Elliot Arthy

The Seaman's Medical Advocate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1798 publication examines the causes and cures for yellow fever which claimed thousands of lives in the British navy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9781108028974
• ISBN-10: 1108028977
• Artikelnr.: 34162253

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Of the Nature and Causes of the Bilious or Yellow Fever; Part II. Of the Several Habits
Dispositions
and Employments
of Seamen
in the West-India Merchants' Service
Whereby
They Are Exposed
and Predisposed
to be Affected by the Yellow Fever. And
of the Other Asserted Diseases and Means
Which Contribute to the Loss of Seamen: 1. Of the production of the Yellow Fever
and consequent loss of seamen
in the West-India merchants' service
through their desertion from one ship to another; 2. Of the production of the Yellow Fever
and consequent loss of seamen
in the West-India merchants' service
through their going
in open boats
to distant parts; 3. Of the production of the Yellow Fever
and consequent loss of seamen
in the West-India merchants' service
as stated in the two preceding sections
the effects of which are not manifest until they are on their passage from the West-Indies to Europe; 4. Of the loss and sufferings of seamen
in the West-India merchants' service
through the want of proper medical and surgical assistance; 5. Circumstances that may be adduced by others
as tending to lessen and ameliorate the before said loss and sufferings; Part III. Causes of the Loss of Seamen On-Board Ships of War on the West-India Station: 1. Of the production of the Yellow Fever
and consequent loss of seamen
on-board ships of war on the West-India station
through impressing seamen on-shore and out of merchantmen; 2. Of the loss of seamen on-board ships of war on the West-India station
through improper medical treatment of the Yellow Fever; 3. Of the loss of seamen on-board ships of war on the West-India station
through the want of a sufficient quantity of the Peruvian Bark
for the relief of the sick of the Yellow Fever; Part IV. Means of Preventing and Ameliorating the Before-said Loss and Sufferings of Seamen in the West-India Merchants' Service: 1. Of regulating merchants' seamen's wages
and preventing them from desertion; 2. Suggestions for the abolition of the impress service
on the West-India station
and for preventing merchants' seamen leaving their ships
and going on-shore in the West-Indies
to avoid being impressed
in order to their preservation from the Yellow Fever; 3. General means of preserving seamen from the Yellow Fever
during the loading and continuance of merchantmen in the West-Indies; 4. Means of providing
in the speediest manner
medical and surgical assistance
and other requisite help; Part V. Means of Preventing and Ameliorating the Before-said Loss and Sufferings of Seamen On-board Ships of War on the West-India Station: 1. Of recruiting ships of war on the West-India station
with seamen
by other means than impressing them on-shore and out of merchantmen
and of causing merchants' seamen to become impressed out of their ships as soon as they arrive in the West-Indies
in order to prevent the introduction of the Yellow Fever; 2. Of the necessity for appointing
and the means of obtaining
surgeons for ships of war on the West-India station
properly experienced in the nature and treatment of the Yellow Fever. Also
of the education requisite for a naval surgeon; 3. Of increasing the emoluments of naval surgeons on the West-India station
so that they may be enabled to provide a sufficient quantity of the Peruvian Bark; General conclusion.