Centre for Maritime Historical Studies
Rasor Bibliography
View entry no. 380
Full entry text:
Allison, Richard Sydney. Sea Diseases: The Story of a Great Natural Experiment in the Preventive Medicine in the Royal Navy. London: Bale Medical, 1943, xxiii, 218 pp.
Categories:
18th C. (1700-1799); Admiralty; age of sail; condition; health; Royal Navy; scurvy;
Keywords:
18th century, eighteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , Royal Navy, Britain, England, scurvy, health, search for cure, vitamin C deficiency