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Health, Medicine, and the Sea: Australian Voyages, c.1815-1860 / Katherine Foxhall
Review Date: 30 May 2013
Military men, as histories of the Royal Navy in particular have shown, tend to be interested in controlling sanitary conditions. Among seamen, maintaining health was always essential otherwise ships could not remain at sea. The main theme of Dr. Katherine Foxhall’s interesting book is voyages to Australia.