What shall we do with the f***ed up sailor,

[sea-surgeon]

I am working on a project aiming to review and integrate the historical and archaeological evidence for naval health and medicine in the period around 1475-1700. I would grateful if you could contribute any suggestions, references, contacts, information sources, pers comms, research questions or ideas.
Here is a list of key topics- naval/military surgeons and surgery, barber surgeons, medical history/theory of the period, written and artistic sources, military history (battles, weapons), medical antiques and artefacts, diet and disease at sea, ship layout, underwater archaeology, wreck sites and finds, skeletal remains.
In short I would like to know about anything that relates or links to medicine at sea 1475-1700.

[sea-surgeon]

You can e-mail me on postmednavmed_project@hotmail.co.uk. Cheers.

[BAJR Host]

A couple of possible useful sources spring to mind:

Chirurgeons: The Staff of the Serpent/Medical History email list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chirurgeons/

UK Naval Re-Enactment 'Porthole': http://hms.org.uk/Naval/

[BAJR Host]

I would have thought that the Maritime Museum at Greenwich would be a good
starting place, and I seem to remember a lot of information came from the
"Mary Rose" at Portsmouth.
Andrew.

[troll]

Might want to have a go at contacting the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar-in Gosport, Hampshire. An enquiry to the really helpful people at the Explosion! museum in Gosport would be a good start too. Good luck-sounds interestin.....