SIR

See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

GILBERT

See also:

• SIR GILBERT BLANE (1749-1834)

BLANE (1749-1834)  , Scottish physician, was born at•Blanefield, 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 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) .