Volume 3

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

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

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    _ Majefty’s naval fervice. Like the former, the prefent Volume was compiled on the fpot of duty ; it muft therefore partake of the im- perfections of its predeceffors. But'if the fubje&t of health, and medical eftablifhments, are to be rendered complete by experience and obfervation, thefe pages have a chance of being confulted, when it will be of little im- portance how and where the author wrote. Thefe labours were begun under your own and. the aufpices of the late Earl Howe; and I truft you will perceive that I have preferved here the fame devotion to the duties of my profeffion, which procured your coun- tenance and affiftance. / The brave man who expofes his life in the fervice of his country, has claims on the generofity of the Public beyond every other competitor. Befides the dangers of battle, he has to contend with hardfhips and priva- tions of all defcriptions; and his difeafes are. of that clafs the moft fatal in their iflue. If therefore the language of truth and ‘inde- ‘pendence becomes any official fituation, it belongs to the Phyfician of a fleet or army. Of all conditions in human life, next to in- fancy, the fick-bed is the moft helplefs. The fineft examples of virtue have been practifed 5 there,