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

• Main Author: Woodall, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Müller, Irmgard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
• Series: Classic Texts in the Sciences,
• Subjects: 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...