The seaman's medical advocate

The seaman's medical advocate

Arthy, Elliot, 1765-

Title pages

Yellow fever

Medicine, naval

Arthy, a naval surgeon, outlines the heavy losses to the British navy due to yellow fever, suggesting ways to limit the exposure of seamen, and calling for more and better educated naval surgeons to treat them.

Title page of Elliot Arthy's 1798 The seaman's medical advocate : or, an attempt to shew that five thousand seamen are, annually, during war, lost to the British nation, in the West India merchants' service, and on board ships of war on the West India station, through the yellow fever

Arthy, Elliot, 1765-

printed for Messrs Richardson, Royal-Exchange; and Mr. Egerton, opposite the Admiralty

1798

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Kennedy Library of English Medical Books, in the Boston Medical Library (1.Mk.16)

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1 title page

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DigID0002843

Gift of Harris Kennedy, M.D., to the Boston Medical Library, 1921