La navigation maritime, la santé et la médecine au XVIIIe siècle

Sea Voyaging, Health and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century 


Eighteenth-Century Life, Volume 50, Number 2, April 2026, 




Introduction
Sandhya Patel ; Sophie Vasset


Articles


“Drawn and Coloured in Drops of Blood”: Insights into Mortality, Injury, and Sickness amongst the Pathfinders of the British Royal Navy in the Late Eighteenth Century
Michael Barritt


Health at Sea: Knowledge and Care: French Medical Men at Sea in the Eighteenth Century
Odile Gannier


Disclosure: Healing Encounters in the Pacific Ocean: The Dolphin Voyage (1766–68)
Sandhya Patel


Transpacific Circulation of Medicine and Medical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Shipboard Documents
Wim De Winter


The Musée National de la Marine Network between Paris and Rochefort: A History of Shipboard Hygiene and Medical Collections
Charlotte Drahé; Marianne Tricoire


Naval Medicine in the Reframing of Medical Knowledge: Schools of Surgery and Marine Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century France
Guillaume Linte


“The Poor Crocus Pluckt Up by the Root”: Writing the Self and Social Negotiation: The Case of James Rymer, Royal Navy Surgeon (1750–1829)
Juliette Rigaud


Suffering at Sea: Alexander Falconbridge's Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)
Sophie Vasset