Gilbert Blane

29 August 1749 – 26 June 1834

A Scottish physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy. He saw action against both the French and Spanish fleets, and later served as a Commissioner on the Sick and Wounded Board of the Admiralty (Wikipedia).

• A brief statement of the progressive improvement of health of the Royal Navy at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century
• A lecture on muscular motion
• Elements of medical logic
• Elements of medical logick, or, Philosophical principles of the practice of physick
• Inquiry into the causes and remedies of the late and present scarcity and high price of provisions
• Inquiry into the causes and remedies of the late and present scarcity and high price of provisions
• Observations on the diseases incident to seamen
• Observations on the diseases of seamen
• Observations on the diseases of seamen
• Reflections on the present crisis of publick affairs
• A lecture on muscular motion
• A short account of the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen