Rough medicine : surgeons at sea in the age of sail /

Scurvy, amputations, tropical diseases, irritable captains and mutinous crews were some of the trails facing ships' doctors on the early nineteenth century whaling vessels. Surgery was done under austere and difficult conditions.

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Main Author: Druett, Joan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2001.
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Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: RC986.D78 2001
 
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