Health, medicine, and the sea explores how convicts, emigrants and the surgeons responsible for their welfare created medical knowledge at sea in the first half of the nineteenth century. What was it like for Eliza Baldwinson, a young London thief, to experience (and survive) cholera, fever and scurvy as she sailed through strange oceans? Why did Henry Wellings, a young father from North West England, trace his family's voyage - and his son's illness - on a hand-drawn map of the world? What possessed Charles Cameron, an eager naval surgeon, to pillage his ship's gunpowder stores in an attempt...