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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| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2001.
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Evans: Library Stacks
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RC986.D78 2001 |
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