Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail by Joan Druett

Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

Joan Druett

270 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they used, the treatments they had at their disposal, the sorts of people they encountered in t...

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