The Surgions Mate The First Compendium on Naval Medicine, Surgery and Drug Therapy (London 1617). Edited and Annotated by Irmgard Müller /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Woodall, John (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Müller, Irmgard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
• Σειρά: Classic Texts in the Sciences,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.

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 ro...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Short biography of the author John Woodall
• Presentation of the hygienic conditions on board of trade and war ships around 1600
• The beginning of ship medicine and drug provision on board of sailing ships in the 16th and 17th centuries
• The impact of John Woodall’s handbook „The Surgions Mate” (London 1617) on the development and formation of ship medicine
• A modern reproduction of John Woodall’s „Surgions Mate“ (London 1617)
• Detailed commentary on the medical, surgical and pharmaceutical terms in the text
• List of drugs and surgical instruments mentioned in the work
• Index of alchemical signs
• John Woodall’s medical and surgical accomplishments with regard to the development of ship medicine in other nations
• References.