Sir thomas troubridge (3 resultados)

Leather. Condición: Very Good Indeed. First edition. Two fascinating and very scarce volumes of Royal Navy medical reports and statistical health data, bound in a single volume. The very scarce 1840 and 1841 reports of the health of the Royal Navy, analysing health date covering the years 1830 to 1836.Volume I features the reports from South America, the West Indies and North America, the Mediterranean and the Peninsula, where volume II features reports from the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa, the East Indies, and 'home'.Drawing from surgeons' logs, hospital records, and ship reports, these volumes provided detailed tables categorising illness and mortality by disease type, location, season, and shipboard conditions.Tables highlight the prevalence of fevers, scurvy, and respiratory diseases, and emphasised the role of poor hygiene, inadequate diet, and cramped conditions in fostering illness.With the bookplate of the Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons to the front pastedown.Rebacked, retaining the original endpapers.These works helped establish a tradition of military health surveillance, likely contributing to later developments in public health and epidemiology. Rebacked, in a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd handling mark. Very Good Indeed. None (ilustrador). book.…

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dated 23rd April, 1804, appointing him Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, and to wear the Blue Flag at the Main top-mast-head . . .; one side, oblong folio on vellum with papered seal and revenue stamp plus two other signatures; vertical fold at centre, plus other light folds. *Admiral John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent (1735endash 1923) and Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge (1758-1807) served together on the Board of Admiralty between 1801 and 1804. Admiral Alexander Graeme, sometimes spelt 'Grame' (1741endash 1818) , Royal Navy officer. Signed. …