Arthy, a naval surgeon, outlines the heavy losses to the British navy due to yellow fever, suggesting ways to limit the exposure of seamen, and calling for more and better educated naval surgeons to treat them. Title page of Elliot Arthy's 1798 The seaman's medical advocate : or, an attempt to shew that five thousand seamen are, annually, during war, lost to the British nation, in the West India merchants' service, and on board ships of war on the West India station, through the yellow fever
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