Los enfermos en las armadas y flotas de Indias

What the Laws of the Indies required for the sick on the Atlantic crossing: a physician and a chief surgeon on the same salary, an apothecary, barbers, hospital brothers clothed at the crown's cost, the sick lodged in the ship's alcázar with people assigned to nurse them, diets and fowl that could be spent on nothing else, a two-key medicine chest with its own account book, and cure ashore in the hospitals of the ports. The medicines the sick took were charged against their wages.