Disease Nutrition Index
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In the Seven Years War, the Royal Navy lost approximately 1,500 men to enemy action and over 100,000 to disease and accident. By Nelson’s era, Lind’s work on scurvy and the systematic issue of lemon juice had partially transformed that calculus — but yellow fever in the Caribbean, typhus in crowded gun-decks, and dysentery in every theatre continued to devastate crews. This subdomain examines the intersection of nutrition, disease, and naval effectiveness: how diet shaped immunity, how provisioning failures triggered epidemics, and how naval surgeons developed empirical responses that predated germ theory by a century. It connects to Naval Victualling (diet as disease variable), Medicine and Health (the clinical response), and Climate and Weather (tropical disease environments).
Primary Notes
- Malaria — Nelson in the Caribbean — first filled disease-nutrition note; Caribbean malaria only
- Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780 — two hundred / ten survived only; overflow
- Manchineel Spring — San Juan 1780 — manchineel spring only; overflow
- Boreas Three Years No Deaths — three-year no-death claim only; overflow
- Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds — 150 / fifty only; overflow
Roadmap
(planned notes as red-links — add as research identifies gaps)
- James Lind and the Scurvy Experiment — The Citrus Solution and Its Delayed Adoption
- Yellow Fever in the West Indies — Mortality Rates and Failed Caribbean Campaigns
- Typhus on the Lower Deck — Contagion, Overcrowding, and the Sick Bay
- The Lemon Juice Order 1795 — Vitamin C, the Navy Board, and Disease Prevention
- Nelson’s Own Health — Eye, Arm, Seasickness, and the Body Under Command
Cross-Cutting
- See also: MOC_Food_Provisioning
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