Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
Book Details
Author(s)Joan Druett
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN / ASIN0415924529
ISBN-139780415924528
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,323,371
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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 their travels, and the dangers they faced under the harsh conditions of life at sea.










