Author: Orville HorwitzPublisher:
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Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A Compend of Surgery, for Students and Physicians
Author: Orville HorwitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Surgions Mate
Author: John WoodallPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319255746
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book reproduces and comments John Woodall’s handbook which was used as standard text for medical treatment at sea in the seventeenth century and was the first instruction for medical service aboard on the whole. In 1612 the East India Company, founded in London 1600 and invested with special royal privileges and authority, appointed John Woodall as its first surgeon-general, who had gained great medical experience at theatres of war abroad. Woodall was appointed the task to radically reform the medical aid on sailing ships and to supervise the education of talented ship doctors. He was the first one to establish standardized regulations concerning the provision of instruments and medicaments on board. To this end he wrote an instructive manual for ship surgeons with the title “The Surgions Mate”, published in 1617 in London and edited repeatedly until 1655, listing essential instruments and remedies for the use at sea and providing detailed annotations. The manual’s particularities include notes on the portion of paracelsian drugs, the first enema of tobacco, the treatment of gunshot wounds and the strong recommendation of lemon juice against scurvy. Moreover, descriptions of injuries, instruments, and many diseases as a result of Woodall’s extended personal observations at sea are given. The present edition of this exceptional classic includes comprehensive annotations on the first medical chest and its application on sailing ships. Also, the implications of Woodall’s achievements in regard to the development of ship medicine and pharmacy in other seafaring nations are discussed. The book will appeal to historians of medicine and interested readers alike.
Compend of Medicine and Surgery
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Author: A System of Surgery
Author: Samuel David GrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
The Practice of Surgery
Author: Thomas BryantPublisher:
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Category : Pathology, Surgical
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Renaissance Medicine
Author: Vivian NuttonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000553809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases, such as syphilis and the Sweat, and by the development of printing and more efficient means of communication. Chapters examine how civic institutions such as Health Boards, hospitals, town doctors and healers became more significant in the fight against epidemic disease, and special attention is given to the role of women and domestic medicine. The final section, on beliefs, explores the revised Galenism of academic medicine, including a new emphasis on anatomy and its most vocal antagonists, Paracelsians. The volume concludes by considering the effect of religious changes on medicine, including the marginalisation, and often expulsion, of non-Christian practitioners. Based on a wide reading of primary sources from literature and art across Europe, Renaissance Medicine is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of medicine and disease in the sixteenth century.
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