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'''Sir Gilbert Blane''' ([[29 August]] [[1749]] - [[26 June]] [[1834]]) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] physician who instituted health reform in the British navy. Born in Blanefield, [[Ayrshire]], he studied [[medicine]] at [[Edinburgh University]] before moving to [[London]], where he served as private physician to [[George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney | Lord Rodney]]. Blane accompanied Rodney to the [[West Indies]] in 1779.

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Blane did much to improve the health of sailors by heeding their diet and enforcing due sanitary precautions. Largely due to his advocacy, the entire navy in [[1795]] made the use of [[Lime (fruit)|lime]] juice obligatory to prevent 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]]. In [[1812]] he became a baronet in reward for services he rendered in connection with the return of the [[Walcheren expedition]]. His works include ''Observations on the Diseases of Seamen'' (1795) and ''Elements of Medical Logic'' (1819). Blane died in London.

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