Thoughts on the Prevention of the Diseases most usual among Seamen.

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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.