MEDICAL DISEASE IN THE MERCHANT NAVIES OF THE WORLD IN THE DAYS OF SAIL: THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY'S EXPERIENCE
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In a previous communication I gave details of admissions to the Seamen’s Hospital Society (SHS)’s institutions in the latter years of the nineteenth century.1 What, though, were the medical diseases that afflicted patients in the early days of the charity, which had been founded in 1821? Information on disease in the merchant navy in the days of sail is limited. Sir Andrew Halliday,2 Dr D. MacKinnon and Dr C. J. Roberts became physicians to the SHS in 1821. All were thanked for their services in the first annual report (1822), while only the last two were referred to in the reports for 1823–8. George Roupell (Fig. 1),3 their successor and visiting physician, was the first to make annual reports of cases placed under his care on HMS Grampus (which was succeeded by HMS Dreadnought on 31 October 1831) in 1829–30, 1830–1 and 1831–2. By the time he
[1] G. C. Cook. Andrew Halliday, Kt FRCPE (1781–1839): Service in the Napoleonic Wars and West Indies, and First Physician to the Seamen's Hospital Society , 2004, Journal of medical biography.
[2] G. Cook. DISEASE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MERCHANT NAVY: THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY'S EXPERIENCE , 2001, The Mariner's mirror.
[3] W. Bynum. Cullen and the study of fevers in Britain, 1760-1820. , 1981, Medical History.