Joan Druett

Rough Medicine

Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they used, the treatments they had at their disposal, the sorts of people they encountered in their travels, and the dangers they faced under the harsh conditions of life at sea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415924528
• ISBN-10: 0415924529
• Artikelnr.: 21940488

Autorenporträt

Joan Druett is the author ofShe Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea (2000) andHen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail (1998). She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One
Medicine ar Sea: Woodall's the Surgion's Mate Chapter Two
Shipping Out Chapter Three
The Medicine Chest Chapter Four
the First Leg: Day
to
Day Life Chapter Five
The Whale Hunt Chapter Six Accidents, Injuries and Ailments Chapter Seven
Battling Scurvy Chapter Eight
Encounters with Native Peoples Chapter Nine
Motley, Reckles & Profligate:Troubles with Captains and Crews Epilogue0 The Fates of Our Surgeons Acknowledgements Bibliography Glossary John King's Patient Log Medical Chests:Comparative Chart Index