Malaria — Nelson in the Caribbean

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A fleet of ships of the line. Not a portrait and not a sick-berth scene.

Overview

The illness is already on Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview under Early Life. He contracted malaria in the Caribbean, suffered debilitating seasickness throughout his career, and kept fighting.¹

The Illness

This note covers that Caribbean malaria only. A year, a later fever, yellow fever, scurvy, and a surgeon stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

The same biography already records the later wounds at Calvi and Tenerife. Those stay on Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794 and Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Food_Provisioning
• Disease_Nutrition_Index

Same Subject

• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Amputation Surgery at Sea — 18th Century
• Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type

Cross-Domain

• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• Age of Sail — Chronological Timeline

Footnotes

1. Contracted malaria in the Caribbean; debilitating seasickness throughout his career; kept fighting: Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview. ↩

2. Calvi and Tenerife wounds stay on those notes. Do not invent a year, a later fever, yellow fever, scurvy, or a surgeon. Do not invent troop numbers. ↩