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BLANE, SIR GILBERT (1749-1834)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 41 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BLANE, SIR GILBERT (1749-1834) , Scottish physician, was born atBlanefield, Ayrshire, on the 29th of August 1749. He was educated at Edinburgh university, and shortly after his removal to London became private physician to Lord Rodney, whom he accompanied to the West Indies in 1779. He did much to improve the
health
  of the
fleet
  by attention to the diet of the sailors and by enforcing due sanitary precautions; and it was largely through him that in 1795 the use of lime-juice was made obligatory throughout the navy as a preventive of scurvy. Enjoying a number of
court
  and
hospital
 
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appointments he built up a good practice for himself in London, and the government constantly consulted him on questions of public
hygiene
 . He was made a
baronet
  in 1812 in reward for the services he rendered in connexion with the return of the Walcheren expedition. He died in London on the 26th of June 1834. Among his works were Observations on the Diseases of
Seamen
  (1795) and Elements of Medical Logic (1819).


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