Download or read book Physician to the Fleet written by Brian Vale and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details Thomas Trotter's important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and typhus, to the study of addiction, and to improved health and safety in mines. Thomas Trotter, after studying medicine at Edinburgh, began his naval career as a surgeon's mate in 1779 and saw continuous service up to the peace of 1802, rising as a result of great abilities and the right patronage to become Physician to the Channel Fleet, and being present at the great battles of Dogger Bank in 1781 and the Glorious First of June in 1794. As Physician to the Channel Fleet, he was a major player in the conquest of scurvy and the control of typhus and smallpox in the navy. After the peace he settled in Newcastle where he produced pioneering work on alcoholism and neurosis, as a result of which he is regarded as one of the founders of the field of addiction studies. This book provides an intimate account of naval life in the great age of sail from the perspective of a surgeon, describing the impact of Enlightenment ideas and new medical techniques, and showing how improved health was a crucial factor in making possible the British fleet's great victories in this period. BRIAN VALE is a maritime historian, whose books include Independence or Death: British sailors and Brazilian Independence (Tauris 1996), A Frigate of King George, Life and Duty on a British Man-of-War (Tauris 2001) and The Audacious Admiral Cochrane (Conway 2004). GRIFFITH EDWARDS, Emeritus Professor at King's College, London, is one of the country's leading experts on addiction. His publications include Alchohol: the Ambiguous Molecule (Penguin 2000) and Matters of Substance (Penguin 2005).
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of the Late Dr Thomas Trotter Physician to the British Fleet written by Alexander Cockburn and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nelson s Surgeon written by Laurence Brockliss and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in Nelson's defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, he became Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war. The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he was a prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of the nineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson , he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.
Download or read book Regulations and Instructions for the Medical Officers of His Majesty s Fleet written by etc Great Britain. Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicina Nautica an Essay on the Diseases of Seamen Comprehending the History of Health in His Majesty s Fleet Under the Command of Richard Earl Howe Admiral By Thomas Trotter M D Member of the Royal Medical Society an Honorary Member of the Royal Physical Society c Physician to the Fleet written by Thomas Trotter and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Naval Medical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical and Physical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nelson s Surgeon written by Laurence Brockliss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805. Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in securing the victory, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory atTrafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, hebecame Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war.The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he wasa prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of thenineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.
Download or read book Ship s Doctor written by Terrence L. Riley and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He gives a number of insights about the role of doctors inside a military organization and offers a wealth of lively anecdotes as he describes his daily ministering to a ceaseless flow of patients with medical problems, large and small. As he takes readers on board for a glimpse of what happens in this steel-walled city of close to 6,000 sailors, it becomes immediately obvious that carrier life is dominated by the ongoing need for order and efficiency - that mistakes can have monstrous consequences.
Download or read book The Navy List written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1816-12 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The medical men of the First Fleet written by Noel Dan and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Practical Account of the Mediterranean Fever as it Appeared in the Ships and Hospitals of His Majesty s Fleet on that Station with Cases and Dissections To which are Added Facts and Observations Illustrative of Its Causes Symptoms and Treatment Comprehending the History of Fever in the Fleet During the Years 1810 1811 1812 1813 and of the Gibraltar Carthagena Fevers By William Burnett M D Physician of the Fleet Honorary Fellow of the Imperial Medico Chirurgical Academy of St Petersburg Resident Physician in Chichester and One of the Physicians to the Public Dispensary in that City Late Physician and Inspector of Hospitals to His Majesty s Fleet in the Mediterranean written by William Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surgeon Alexander Denmark Physician to the Mediterranean Fleet written by John Hemsley Pearn and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician and Surgeon written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicina Nautica and Essay on the Diseases of Seamen Comprehending the History of Health in His Majesty s Fleet Under Earl Howe with an Appendix Containing Communications on the New Doctrine of Contagion and Yellow Fever by American Physicians Etc written by Thomas TROTTER (M.D., Physician to his Majesty's Fleet.) and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doctors at Sea written by R. Haines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, in quarantine, and after arrival. The book shows, in graphic detail, just why a few notorious voyages suffered tragic loss of life in the absence of competent supervision. Its emphasis, however, is on demonstrating the extent to which the professionalism of the majority of surgeon superintendents, even on ships where childhood epidemics raged, led to the extraordinary saving of life on the Australian route in the Victorian era.
