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Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joan DruettTheme:Chronological Period/19th CenturyPublish date:9/21/2001Pages:280
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415924528ISBN-10:0415924529UPC:9780415924528Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:Maritime History & Piracy, HistorySize:8.66 x 5.78 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.359Product ID:SCR5MM8VBD
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415924528ISBN-10:0415924529UPC:9780415924528Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:Maritime History & Piracy, HistorySize:8.66 x 5.78 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.359Product ID:SCR5MM8VBD

Joan Druettis the author ofShe Captains: Heroines andHellions of the Sea(2000) andHen Frigates: Wives ofMerchant Captains Under Sail(1998). She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.


Publisher: Routledge

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Joan Druett

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