Energy requirements in health / J.V.G.A. Durnin -- Victualling of the fleet in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / C.C. Lloyd -- Vitamin requirements of the human body / I.M. Sharman -- Two hundred years of the sailor's diet / G.J. Milton-Thompson
-- Clinical manifestations of vitamin deficiencies / G. Taylor -- Some consequences of nutritional disorders in eighteenth-century British circumnavigation / J. Watt -- Eighteenth-century French voyages of exploration: general problems of nutrition with special reference to the voyages of Bougainville and d'Entrecasteaux / A. Carr-- Health and navigation in the South Seas: the Spanish experience / J. de Zulueta and L. Higueras -- Doctors abroad. Medicine and nineteenth-century Arctic exploration / R.E. Johnson -- By want beleaguered. Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in the Canadian Arctic / R.E. Johnson -- The history and implications of processed food / A.E. Bender -- Hypothermia / W.R. Keatinge -- Nutritional aspects of the British Arctic (Nares) expedition of 1875-76 and its predecessors / A. Savours and M. Deacon -- The influence of diet in Scott's last expedition / A.F. Rogers -- Nutritional deficiencies in the crews of German raiders in two world wars / H. Schadewaldt -- Neurological factors in decision-making / W. Gooddy.
Sixteen papers, including some on polar aspects.
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