BLANE, SIR GILBERT (I 749-1834), Scottish physician, was born at Blanefield, Ayrshire, on Aug. 29, 1749. He was educated at Edinburgh university, and shortly after his removal to London became private physician to Lord Rodney, whom he accompanied to the West Indies in 1779. He improved the health of the fleet by attention to the diet of the sailors and by enforcing due sanitary precautions, and it was largely through him that in 1795 the use of lime-juice was made obligatory throughout the navy as a preventative of scurvy. He was made a baronet in 1812 in reward for the services he rendered in connection with the return of the Walcheren expedition. He died in London on June 26, 1834. His works include Observations on the Diseases of Seamen ; Elements of Medical Logic (1819) .