The Surgions Mate
The First Compendium on Naval Medicine, Surgery and Drug Therapy (London 1617). Edited and Annotated by Irmgard Müller
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 c…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Müller, Irmgard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-25574-3
- EAN: 9783319255743
- Produktnummer: 20918933
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 343 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'162 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße und 148 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Prof. Irmgard Müller is Emeritus Professor in History of Medicine at the University of Bochum and an outstanding researcher in the field.
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