Rasor Bibliography

View entry no. 677

Full entry text:

Archer, Sally & Haycock, David. Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 240 pp. In 2009, noted as forthcoming.

Categories:

18th C. (1700-1799); 19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; age of sail; condition; health; scurvy; victualling;

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon, scurvy, health, search for cure, vitamin C deficiency , victualling, food ration, diet for naval personnel, nutrition