Volume 2

Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen. In three volumes / by Thomas Trotter.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Medicina nautica : an essay on the diseases of seamen. In three volumes / by Thomas Trotter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fo many interruptions to a train of thought, that it requires a degree of apathy, not often met with in the literary character, to rally at pleafure. The world muft therefore accept our prefent labours in the homely drefs we are enabled to give them. The fhip in which we embarked during the fummer did not return to Spithead till the end of November, at which time we began to compile this volume : to fpend eight months of the year at fea, and the remaining four in fevere ftudy, is what our health and fpirits are unequal to perform. The original plan of arrangement is preferved: a Abort hiftory of the health of the fleet is pre- mifed, which, from the fmall number of fhips employed, offers but little occafion for remark* Some of the fubjefts of the former volume are refumed, where there was a neceffity for a fuller examination, or by the acceflion of frefli facts. In the department of furgery, we have brought forward matter of inveftigation, alike new and intereflingj and we have given the name of malignant ulcer to a fpecies of fore that has mfefted fome particular fhips in a manner that has excited ftrong fufpicions of a contagious nature. This inquiry being now begun, we ear- neflly hope that attentive obfervers will not fail to preferve every facl that may tend to elucidate this hitherto unexplored fubjeft. A few furgical cafes are introduced, which do equal honour to the Profefiion, as to the gentlemen who have fo ably and fuccefsfully managed the cure.