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Rough medicine : surgeons at sea in the age of sail / Joan Druett.
- Title
- Rough medicine : surgeons at sea in the age of sail / Joan Druett.
- Author
- Druett, Joan
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC986 .D78 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 270 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Using diaries, journals, and correspondence, the author introduces readers to doctors who endured life on the sea, what types of medicines and surgical tools they used, and what sort of people they encountered. Illustrations and photos.
- Subject
- History, 19th Century
- Naval Medicine > history
- General Surgery > history
- Medicine, Naval > Oceania > History > 19th century
- Ship physicians > Oceania > History > 19th century
- Whaling > Oceania > History
- Medicine, Naval > South Pacific Ocean > History > 19th century
- Ship physicians > South Pacific Ocean > History > 19th century
- Whaling > South Pacific Ocean > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Medicine at sea: Woodall's the surgions mate -- Shipping out -- Medical chest -- First leg: Day-to-day life -- Whale hunt -- Accidents, injuries, and ailments -- Battling ccurvy -- Encounters with native peoples -- "Motley, reckless & profligate": Troubles with captains and crews -- Epilogue: Fates of our surgeons -- Appendix A: Medical chest comparison -- Appendix B: Dr. King's patient list, Aurora, 1840 -- Appendix C: Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0415924510
- LCCN
- ^^^00034474^
- OCLC
- 44046903
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library