Author: Thomas TrotterPublisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
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Medicina Nautica : an Essay on the Diseases of Seamen, Comprehending the History of Health in His Majesty's Fleet Under the Command of Richard Earl Howe, Admiral
Author: Thomas TrotterPublisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
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Medicina Nautica
Author: Thomas TrotterPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Medicina Nautica; and Essay on the diseases of Seamen: comprehending the history of health in His Majesty's Fleet under ... Earl Howe (with an appendix containing communications on the new doctrine of contagion and yellow fever, by American physicians, etc.).
Author: Thomas TrotterAn Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness ... The fourth edition, corrected and enlarged
Author: Thomas TrotterThe Regius Chair of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, 1806-55
Author: Matthew H. KaufmanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333606
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Medicina Nautica
Author: Thomas TrotterDisease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day
Author: Mark HarrisonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745638015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
‘Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject.’ Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers State University In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. He explores how the rise of modern nation-states was closely linked to the threat posed by disease, and particularly infectious, epidemic diseases. He examines the ways in which disease and its treatment and prevention, changed over the centuries, under the impact of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and with the advent of scientific medicine. For the first time, the author integrates the history of disease in the West with a broader analysis of the rise of the modern world, as it was transformed by commerce, slavery, and colonial rule. Disease played a vital role in this process, easing European domination in some areas, limiting it in others. Harrison goes on to show how a new environment was produced in which poverty and education rather than geography became the main factors in the distribution of disease. Assuming no prior knowledge of the history of disease, Disease and the Modern World provides an invaluable introduction to one of the richest and most important areas of history. It will be essential reading for all undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the history of disease and medicine, and for anyone interested in how disease has shaped, and has been shaped by, the modern world.
An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body (Psychology Revivals)
Author: Thomas TrotterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317962893
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of drunkenness figures prominently in the thinking and writing of social reformers, politicians, theorists, medical practitioners, and psychiatrists. Eventually, by the mid-nineteenth century, ‘alcoholism’ was named as the disease of habitual drunkenness. Possibly the most important book to predict this was Trotter’s Essay, written in 1804. Through case studies based on wide experience, he detailed the manifestations of alcoholism, ventured therapeutic recommendations, and squarely termed drunkenness a disease – indeed, a mental disease. Originally published in 1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, Roy Porter’s Introduction to this facsimile reprint locates Trotter’s work within the wider history of the evolution of the idea of alcoholism. It also examines the Essay in the context of Trotter’s own life and mind – a mind preoccupied with what he saw as the degenerative tendencies of modern civilization and with the wider issues of drug dependence.
The Seaforth Bibliography
Author: Eugene RasorPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848320027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 875
Book Description
This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.
An Enquiry Into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life
Author: John AbernethyPublisher:
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Category : Anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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