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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.
==References==
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[[Category:1749 births|Blane, Gilbert]]
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