• A naval surgeon, or less commonly ship's doctor, is the person responsible for the health of the ship's company aboard a warship. The term appears often...
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  • Edward Ives (1719–1786) was a British naval surgeon who served in Charles Watson's fleet up to 1757. He is notable for writing From England To India In...
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    He may have been apprenticed to his uncle George Smyth, a half-pay naval surgeon in nearby Buncrana, before studying at either the University of Glasgow...
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    controlled clinical experiments reported in the history of medicine. As a naval surgeon on HMS Salisbury, Lind had compared several suggested scurvy cures:...
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    Flight Surgeons and to Naval Flight Surgeons, the latter who are considered "aeronautically designated" officers like their Naval Aviator and Naval Flight...
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  • as his naval surgeon. They sail in HM sloop-of-war Sophie with first lieutenant James Dillon, a wealthy and aristocratic Irishman. The naval action in...
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    Jean René Constant Quoy (category Naval surgeons)
    Rochefort) was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist. In 1806, he began his medical studies at the school of naval medicine at Rochefort, afterwards...
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    John Moyle (died February 1713–14) was a British naval surgeon. Moyle after serving many years at sea in merchant ships and ships of war, and having been...
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    Atkins (1685–1757) was an English naval surgeon and writer. Atkins received his professional education as a surgeon's apprentice, and immediately entered...
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    Thomas Bates, FRS (fl. 1704–1719) was a naval surgeon in the Royal Navy. Bates is known from his Enchiridion of Fevers common to Seamen in the Mediterranean...
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  • Thomas Reid (1791–1825), was an Irish-born naval surgeon in the Royal Navy. Educated near Dungannon, County Tyrone, he joined the Navy in around 1811...
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    Bass (/bæs/; 30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. Bass was born on 30 January 1771 at Aswarby...
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    An older name for the bird is MacCormick's skua, after explorer and naval surgeon Robert McCormick, who first collected the type specimen. This species...
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    Assistant (Royal Navy) Institute of Naval Medicine Naval surgeon Surgeon's mate Loblolly boy Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service List of hospitals...
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    Joseph Paul Gaimard (category Naval surgeons)
    1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31, 1793. He studied medicine at the naval medical school in...
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  • Wahida Prism Khan (category Naval surgeons)
    Wahida Prism Khan (born 1972) is an Indian naval surgeon. She was the first woman to command the annual parade at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune...
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  • lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, a naval surgeon, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher. One teaching job led...
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    Japanese cuisine, barley is mixed with rice and steamed as mugimeshi. The naval surgeon Takaki Kanehiro introduced it into institutional cooking to combat beriberi...
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  • to: Sir Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer) (1818–1899), British naval surgeon and explorer of the Arctic Alexander Armstrong (Australian politician)...
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  • Sir William Rae CB (1786 – 8 April 1873) was a Scottish naval surgeon. Rae was born in 1786. He was the son of Matthew Rae of Park-end, Dumfries. He was...
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    training for all naval flight surgeons, aviation physiologists, and aerospace experimental psychologists. With the closure of Naval Air Station Memphis in Millington...
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    a Welsh naval surgeon, who became the Inspector of H.M. Hospital and Fleets for the Royal Navy. He had the distinction of being the Surgeon for the Royal...
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    George Busk (category English surgeons)
    George Busk FRS FRAI (12 August 1807 – 10 August 1886) was a British naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist. Busk was born in St. Petersburg, Russia...
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    José d'Almeida (category Portuguese surgeons)
    Carvalho e Silva (27 November 1784 — 17 October 1850) was a Portuguese naval surgeon and pioneering merchant in Singapore. d'Almeida was born in São Pedro...
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    heights, 29 May 1841. Watercolour painting by Edward H. Cree (1814–1901), Naval Surgeon to the Royal Navy. The 98th Regiment of Foot at the attack on Chin-Kiang-Foo...
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  • William Balmain (category Australian surgeons)
    17 November 1803) was a Scottish-born naval surgeon and civil administrator who sailed as an assistant surgeon with the First Fleet to establish the first...
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  • William Warden (1777–1849) was a British surgeon in the Royal Navy who published a popular account of his conversations with Napoleon Bonaparte. Warden...
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  • held by a senior lieutenant. This naval lieutenant ranks higher than an army lieutenants; within NATO countries the naval rank of lieutenant is a OF-2 and...
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  • was a Scottish naval surgeon and medical writer. He was educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow, entered the Royal Navy as assistant-surgeon in 1827, and rose...
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    such a manner that it is hardly possible to awake him." The British naval surgeon John Atkins described the disease on his return from West Africa in...
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