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  OBSERVATIONS

  ON THE

  DISEASES

  OF

  SEAMEN.

  BY

  GILBERT BLANE, M. D.

  F. R. S. S. LOND. AND EDIN.

  PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE PRINCE OF WALES,
  PHYSICIAN TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE,
  AND TO ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.

  THE SECOND EDITION,

  WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

  LONDON:

  Printed by JOSEPH COOPER;
  And sold by JOHN MURRAY, No. 32 Fleet Street;
  J. JOHNSON, St. Paul’s Church Yard;
  And by WILLIAM CREECH, in Edinburgh.

  M.DCC.LXXXIX.

 Nec Medici, nec Imperatores, nec Oratores, quamvis artis præcepta
 perceperint, quidquam magna laude dignum sine usu et excercitatione
 consequi possunt.

  CICERO.




CONTENTS.


  PART I.

  BOOK I.


  Comprehending the Medical History of the Fleet, from March 1780,
    till August 1781                                                  17


  CHAP. I.

  ACCOUNT of the Health of the Fleet from March 