title: Harry Leach MRCP (1836-1879): control of scurvy in the British Mercantile Marine, and first Port Medical Officer for the city of London.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000266:history; D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D009326:Naval Medicine / Q000266:history*; D012614:Scurvy / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control