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PMarione
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 Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Nelson's health |
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A good book on the subject:
Nelson, a medical casebook by Dr Ann-Mary Hills, Spelmount, Stroud, Gloucester, 2006, ill. xxiv + 264 pp.
ISBN 1 86227 321 9
The only other book on HN's health is by P. D. Gordon Pugh: Nelson and his surgeons, E&S Livingstone, Edinburgh and London, 1968, ill. 68 pp.
ISBN 1 443 00588 5 |
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James
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: Nelson's Health |
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Is it true that Nelson suffered from seasickness?
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PMarione
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While cruizing off Toulon in 1804, he wrote to Davison: "Such a place for storms of wind I never met with, and I am unfortunately in bad weather, always sea-sick" and to St Vincent: "I am - don't laugh - dreadfully sea-sick this day, as it blows a Levanter".
Quoted in Roger Knight's The Pursuit of Victory.
He also certainly suffered of what we would call today panic attacks.
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