Transactions VI

Transactions of the Naval Dockyards Society,

Volume 6, June 2010 ISBN 978-0-9553711-5-8

Transactions of the Twelfth Annual Conference held jointly with the Royal College of Surgeons in England and the Worshipful Company of Barbers in London on 18 October 2008

Editor Ray Riley

Contents

Kathleen Harland, Royal Naval Surgeons Afloat and Ashore 1700-1750

Brian Vale, The Conquest of Scurvy in the Royal Navy 1783-1800: Heroes and Villains

John Kirkup, Maritime Surgical Practice in the Seventeenth Century

Pat Crimmin, The Shortage of Surgeons and Surgeons' Mates c1740-1806: 'An Evil of a Serious Nature to the Service'

Rick Jolly, John Hunter at Belle-Ile (1761): a Falklands Rehearsal

Celia Clark, Naval Hospitals: History and Architectural Overview

Susan Lumas, Sightings of Surgeons in the Naval Dockyards Society's Navy Board Project

Stuart Drabble: Templer and Parlby: Eighteenth Century Dockyard Contractors

Key words: Surgeons, naval surgery, naval hospitals, scurvy, Falklands War, British history, social history, history of medicine

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