Creator
STEPHEN MATURIN [Esteban Maturin y Domanova (c. 1770-1845)]
Title
Thoughts on the Prevention of the Diseases most usual among Seamen.
Coverage
Dublin
Publisher
Zachariah Jackson, for W. Gilbert
Date
1805
Subject
First referenced in Patrick O’Brian’s Desolation Island.
Description
Dr. Stephen Maturin, physician to the Duke of Clarence, was incongruously a ship’s surgeon in the Royal Navy, as well as a classicist and a naturalist, a secret agent, and a member of the Royal Society. His groundbreaking work on sailors’ diseases brought practical changes to the treatment of the British tar.
Original boards with metal furniture. Spine replaced with sailcloth in 1840s. Severe staining.
Provenance: descendants of the loblolly boy of HMS Reliant.
Original boards with metal furniture. Spine replaced with sailcloth in 1840s. Severe staining.
Provenance: descendants of the loblolly boy of HMS Reliant.