Article Nº 3536 Physician or health professional Vol. III · p. 571
Spilsbury (F. B.)
F. B. Spilsbury was surgeon of the British warship Favorita who stayed in Madeira from 12 to 19 October 1805 and described the island in the published account of his voyage to West Africa.
He was surgeon of the Favorita, a British warship, and in the account he published of his voyage to the West Coast of Africa he refers to his stay in Madeira, where he remained from 12 to 19 October 1805. He speaks of the hospitality of the islanders, of leprosy, which he says was common, of the conical caps, of the flowers and fruits made by the nuns and of the thefts committed by the soldiers.
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