Harry Leach MRCP (1836–1879): Control of Scurvy in the British Mercantile Marine,and First Port Medical Officer for the City of London

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Ibid.: 28 November 1879: 215–16

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Anonymous. One hundred years ago. Practitioner 1978; 221: 648

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Leach H. Scurvy. The Times, Lond., 12 January 1866: 7

Leach H. Scurvy in the Merchant Navy. The Times, Lond., 17 January 1866: 7

Leach H. Sea scurvy. The Times, Lond., 19 February 1866: 12

Leach H. Sea-scurvy and limejuice. The Times, Lond., 8 March 1866: 12

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Leach H. Scurvy. The Times, Lond., 8 January 1867: 8

Leach H. Lime juice. The Times, Lond., 22 January 1867: 9

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Anonymous. Leading article. The Times, Lond., 10 January 1866: 9

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Anonymous. Greenwich Hospital. Lancet 1867; i: 309 465–6

“Beta”. The Admiralty and Greenwich Hospital. The Times, Lond., 11 April 1867: 10

Anonymous. Greenwich Hospital and the “Dreadnought”. BMJ 1867; i: 457–8

Rooke HTL . The Greenwich Hospital question. Medical Times and Gazette 1867; i: 453–4

Anonymous. Greenwich Hospital and the Dreadnought. Lancet 1867; i: 524

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Anonymous. Leading article. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 25 October 1867: 5

Anonymous. The future of Greenwich Hospital. Lancet 1867; ii: 711

Anonymous. Greenwich Hospital. Lancet 1868; i: 631

Anonymous. Leading article. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 28 April 1869: 5

Anonymous. Leading article. The Times, Lond., 14 August 1869: 9

Leach H to Chairman of the Port Sanitary Committee. Special report. The Danish emigrants. 19 August 1873. Archives of the Corporation of London Records Office

Leach H. Quarantine as a stopper of the progress of cholera. BMJ 1866; i: 471

Leach H. Clinical remarks on chronic dysentery. Practitioner 1870; 5: 350–2. (Although several entities were doubtless involved, the majority of these cases probably suffered from chronic amoebic colitis)

Leach H. Scurvy or scorbutus. In: Lane SA , Ed. Cooper's Dictionary of Practical Surgery and Encyclopædia of Surgical Science. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1872: 570–2

Leach H. Scurvy. In: Ward SH , Ed. On Some Affections of the Liver and Intestinal Canal with Remarks on Ague and its Sequelæ, Scurvy, Purpura, etc. London: Churchill, 1872: 230–49

Leach H. South Africa as a resort for pulmonary invalids. Lancet 1878; i: 714–16, 752–4

Leach H. The climatic treatment of pulmonary and other diseases, with special reference to South Africa and sea travel. Practitioner 1878; 21: 161–76, 258–69