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OBSERVATIONS
ON THE
DISEASES
OF
SEAMEN.
BY
GILBERT BLANE, M. D.
F. R. S. S. LOND. AND EDIN.
PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE PRINCE OF WALES,
PHYSICIAN TO THE DUKE OF CLARENCE,
AND TO ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL.
THE SECOND EDITION,
WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.
LONDON:
Printed by Joseph Cooper;
And sold by John Murray, No. 32 Fleet Street;
J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church Yard;
And by William Creech, in Edinburgh.

M.DCC.LXXXIX.

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Nec Medici, nec Imperatores, nec Oratores, quamvisartis præcepta perceperint, quidquam magna laudedignum sine usu et excercitatione consequi possunt.

Cicero.

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CONTENTS.