Full title: Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.

Author/creator: Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834.

Date: 1789..

Call Numbers: 616.98024/5

Record Identifier: 74VKOQw7lorA

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: [2], xv, [2], iv-viii, [17]-560, xv p. ; 22 cm.

Publishers: London : Printed by Joseph Cooper, and sold by John Murray ... J. Johnson ... and by William Creech, in Edinburgh, 1789.

Access: Issued in Special Collections.

Notes: Includes index. With three folded tables. "... The main improvement of this edition is the inclusion of a 'list of the remedies pf physic at sea', a guide for physicians and pursers designed to replace the lists issued to navy surgeons, which are 'very injudicious considering the improved state of the medical art'. The recipient of this presentation copy would have had quite an interest in the subject as an explorer of some note. After adventuring for many years in North Africa, in June 1774 Lord Kinnaird returned to England, where his tales of his political and amorous successes at the court of Abyssinia overshadowed even Joseph Banks, not long returned from the Pacific ..." -- Bookseller's catalogue. Mitchell Library copy : Presentation inscription by the author to James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730-1794), with Kinnaird's bookplate. Formerly part of the Haskell F. Norman collection, auctioned Christie's New York, 15 and 16 June 1998. This volume is part of a collection on scurvy acquired from Hordern House Rare Books, Sydney, March 2007.

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DDC: 616.98024

MMS ID: 991022596989702626