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Book The Naval Surgeon   Comprising the Entire Duties of Professional Men at Sea

Download or read book The Naval Surgeon Comprising the Entire Duties of Professional Men at Sea written by William Turnbull and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Regius Chair of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh  1806 55

Download or read book The Regius Chair of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh 1806 55 written by Matthew H. Kaufman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of the Regius Chair of Military Surgery that existed in the University of Edinburgh from 1806–55 is discussed in detail for the first time in this book. The first holder, John Thomson, also held the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's Chair of Surgery from 1804. This Regius Chair was the only one of its type in Britain for almost 50 years, and was established during the Peninsular War. After the second holder, Sir George Ballingall, died in 1855, the Government withdrew its funding support. This Chair introduced numerous Edinburgh medical students to Military Surgery, and many who attended subsequently entered the Medical Service of either the Army, Navy or East India Company. Large numbers of medical officers in the Public service also attended. These courses were popular, and the topics covered were not discussed elsewhere in the Edinburgh medical curriculum.

Book Health  medicine  and the sea

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  • Author : Katherine Foxhall
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-30
  • ISBN : 1526130157
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Health medicine and the sea written by Katherine Foxhall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment. From consumptive convicts who pleaded that going to sea was their only chance of recovery, to sailors who performed macabre ‘medical’ rituals during equatorial ceremonies off the African coast, to surgeons’ formal experiments with scurvy in the southern hemisphere oceans, to furious letters from quarantined emigrants just a few miles from Sydney, this wide-ranging and evocative study brings the experience and meaning of voyaging to life. Katherine Foxhall makes an important contribution to the history of medicine, imperialism and migration which will appeal to students and researchers alike.

Book Surgeons at War

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  • Author : Matthew Kaufman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2000-11-30
  • ISBN : 0313096058
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Surgeons at War written by Matthew Kaufman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaufman examines the training and status of British military surgeons during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Their management of the sick and wounded during the wars with France leading up to and including the Peninsular War is also described. He concludes with an analysis of the medical problems associated with the Crimean War. Using important contemporary texts, Kaufman describes the personalities who served in the British Army Medical Department during the late 18th and 19th centuries, when diseases caused a much higher mortality than injuries sustained in battle. Many military surgeons were only poorly trained, and the management of the sick and wounded only gradually improved over this period despite significant advances in medicine, surgery, and hygene. Government spending cuts after the Peninsular War greatly depleted the medical service of the army so that by the time of the Crimean War it was unable to cope with a European-style war. Deficiencies were recognized and, in the case of the medical services, this led to the establishment of the Army Medical School in 1860. This analysis should be of particular interest to serving military medical officers and to historians and other researchers interested in the management of 18th and 19th century armies in times of peace and war.

Book Life at Sea

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  • Author : Monique Layton
  • Publisher : FriesenPress
  • Release : 2017-01-28
  • ISBN : 1525500945
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Life at Sea written by Monique Layton and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Life at Sea, anthropologist Monique Layton draws on her experiences on modern cruise ships to examine the evolution of sailing from the Age of Exploration to the Age of Tourism. Using historical records and the reports of people who once went to sea through necessity, curiosity, or adventure, she shows the common events that have shaped their voyages and the ingenuity, courage, and determination that characterize mankind's connection with the all-surrounding sea. The book's topics range from the dependence on the wind and manpower through the invention of devices to determine location at sea to modern maritime technology, from the devastation of scurvy and starvation on early ships of exploration and trade to the luxuries of omnipresent food, on-board medical treatment, and professional entertainment available on behemoth cruise ships. The book also delves into the deeper meaning of seafarers' rituals and their harsh lives with severe discipline and few rewards. These aspects along with the horrors of the slave trade and naval warfare, the harrowing crossings of emigrants and convicts, the ambiguities of piracy, and economics of global trade all show the contradictory elements that have consistently shaped travel by sea.

Book The British Critic

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  • Author : James Shergold Boone
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-08-17
  • ISBN : 336851153X
  • Pages : 737 pages

Download or read book The British Critic written by James Shergold Boone and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-17 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1807.

Book The Annual Review and History of Literature

Download or read book The Annual Review and History of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Critic

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1807
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 792 pages

Download or read book The British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of Medical History

Download or read book Annals of Medical History written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Edinburgh Review

Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Medical Library of the Philadelphia Alms house

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Medical Library of the Philadelphia Alms house written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Almshouse. Library and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book For Fear of Pain

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  • Author : Peter Stanley
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2016-08-09
  • ISBN : 900433355X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book For Fear of Pain written by Peter Stanley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fear of Pain offers a social history of the operating room in Britain during the final decades of painful surgery. It asks profound questions: how could surgeons operate upon conscious patients? How could patients submit? It presents a revisionist view of surgery, hygiene, nursing, military and naval surgery and the introduction of anaesthesia.

Book The Cross Cultural Legacy

Download or read book The Cross Cultural Legacy written by Gordon Collier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume pays tribute to the formidable legacy of Hena Maes–Jelinek (1929–2008), a pioneering postcolonial scholar who was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium. Along with a few moving and affectionate pieces retracing the life and career of this remarkable and deeply human intellectual figure, the collection contains poems, short fiction, and metafiction. The bulk of the book consists of contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom Hena Maes–Jelinek devoted much of her career. Other writers treated include Ben Okri, Leone Ross, Kamau Brathwaite, Jamaica Kincaid, Peter Carey, Murray Bail, Patrick White, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Dan Jacobson, Joseph Conrad, and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Caryl Phillips revisits his earlier reflections on the ‘European tribe’. There are wide-ranging essays analysing consanguineous authors, on such topics as Caribbean treatments of the Jewish Diaspora, Swiss-Caribbean authors, the contemporary Australian short story and the Asian connection, and ‘habitation’ in Australian fiction, as well as a searching examination of the socio-political fallout from the scandal of Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’. Contributors are: Gordon Collier, Tim Cribb, Fred D'Aguiar, Geoffrey V. Davis, Jeanne Delbaere, Marc Delrez, Jean–Pierre Durix, Wilson Harris, Dominique Hecq, Marie Herbillon, Louis James, Karen King–Aribisala, Bénédicte Ledent, Christine Levecq, Alecia McKenzie, Carine Mardorossian, Peter H. Marsden, Alistair Niven, Annalisa Oboe, Britta Olinder, Christine Pagnoulle, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott, Stephanos Stephanides, Klaus Stuckert, Peter O. Stummer, Petra Tournay–Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Janet Wilson.

Book The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh

Download or read book The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh written by Phil Dodds and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.

Book Catalogue Raisonn   of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital

Download or read book Catalogue Raisonn of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital written by Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical Library and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: