Title: Starving sailors :
Authors: Watt, J.; Freeman, E. J.; Bynum, W. F.; National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Date: 1981
Publisher: National Maritime Museum,
Physical description: x, 212 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: V
Abstract: Sixteen papers, including some on polar aspects.
Contents: Energy requirements in health / J.V.G.A. Durnin -- Victualling of the fleet in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / C.C. Lloyd -- Vitamin requirements of the human body / I.M. Sharman -- Two hundred years of the sailor's diet / G.J. Milton-Thompson -- Clinical manifestations of vitamin deficiencies / G. Taylor -- Some consequences of nutritional disorders in eighteenth-century British circumnavigation / J. Watt -- Eighteenth-century French voyages of exploration: general problems of nutrition with special reference to the voyages of Bougainville and d'Entrecasteaux / A. Carré -- Health and navigation in the South Seas: the Spanish experience / J. de Zulueta and L. Higueras -- Doctors abroad. Medicine and nineteenth-century Arctic exploration / R.E. Johnson -- By want beleaguered. Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in the Canadian Arctic / R.E. Johnson -- The history and implications of processed food / A.E. Bender -- Hypothermia / W.R. Keatinge -- Nutritional aspects of the British Arctic (Nares) expedition of 1875-76 and its predecessors / A. Savours and M. Deacon -- The influence of diet in Scott's last expedition / A.F. Rogers -- Nutritional deficiencies in the crews of German raiders in two world wars / H. Schadewaldt -- Neurological factors in decision-making / W. Gooddy.
Notes: "Proceedings of an international symposium on The Influence of Nutrition upon Naval and Maritime History held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, from 16th to 18th April 1980"--Foreword.
Subject headings (LCSH): Malnutrition.; Medicine, Naval--History--Congresses.; Medicine, Naval--History.; Naval hygiene--History.; Nutrition disorders--History--Congresses.; Sailors--Diseases--Congresses.; Sailors--Nutrition.; Scurvy.