Author: John HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Docks (Plants)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Power of Water-dock Against the Scurvy ...
Author: John HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Docks (Plants)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Scurvy
Author: Stephen J. BownPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 146681702X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course of many battles at sea. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has, until now, been largely ignored. From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half a chance of surviving the scourge, to the early nineteenth century, when the British conquered scurvy and successfully blockaded the French and defeated Napoleon, Scurvy is a medical detective story for the ages, the fascinating true story of how James Lind (the surgeon), James Cook (the mariner), and Gilbert Blane (the gentleman) worked separately to eliminate the dreaded affliction. Scurvy is an evocative journey back to the era of wooden ships and sails, when the disease infiltrated every aspect of seafaring life: press gangs "recruit" mariners on the way home from a late night at the pub; a terrible voyage in search of riches ends with a hobbled fleet and half the crew heaved overboard; Cook majestically travels the South Seas but suffers an unimaginable fate. Brimming with tales of ships, sailors, and baffling bureaucracy, Scurvy is a rare mix of compelling history and classic adventure story.
Bibliotheca therapeutica
Author: Edward John WaringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise (1766)
Author: John HillPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
To call the Hypochondriasis a fanciful malady, is ignorant and cruel. It is a real, and a sad disease: an obstruction of the spleen by thickened and distempered blood; extending itself often to the liver, and other parts; and unhappily is in England very frequent: physick scarce knows one more fertile in ill; or more difficult of cure. The blood is a mixture of many fluids, which, in a state of health, are so combined, that the whole passes freely through its appointed vessels; but if by the loss of the thinner parts, the rest becomes too gross to be thus carried through, it will stop where the circulation has least power; and having thus stopped it will accumulate; heaping by degrees obstruction on obstruction. Health and cheerfulness, and the quiet exercise of mind, depend upon a perfect circulation: is it a wonder then, when this becomes impeded the body loses of its health, and the temper of its sprightliness? to be otherwise would be the miracle; and he inhumanly insults the afflicted, who calls all this a voluntary forwardness. Its slightest state brings with it sickness, anguish and oppression; and innumerable ills follow its advancing steps, unless prevented by timely care; till life itself grows burdensome. The disease was common in ancient Greece; and her physicians understood it, better than those perhaps of later times, in any other country; who though happy in many advantages these fathers of the science could not have, yet want the great assistance of frequent watching it in all its stages. Those venerable writers have delivered its nature, and its cure: in the first every thing now shews they were right; and what they have said as to the latter will be found equally true and certain. This, so far as present experience has confirmed it, and no farther, will be here laid before the afflicted in a few plain words.
The power of water-dock against the Scurvy, whether in the plain root or essence. With marks to know that disease in all its states; instances of its being mistaken for other disordes; and rules of life for those afflicted with it. By J. Hill, m.d. member of the Imperial Academy
Author: John HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
James Cook and the Conquest of Scurvy
Author: Francis E. CuppagePublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The health of explorers is paramount to their success.
The Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine; Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence ... Edited by John Forbes ... Alexander Tweedie ... John Conolly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Notorious Sir John Hill
Author: George RousseauPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611461219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The first biography of one of Georgian England’s most notorious figures, who thrived on scandal, fracas, and the cultivation of notoriety. Despite this he managed to make contributions to diverse fields, including botany, geology, literature, medicine and the professionalization of science, whose value has stood the test of time. Hill appears here in the company of other illuminati such as Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Linnaeus, Haller and the Fellows of the Royal Society.
A catalogue of books
Author: John CuthellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
