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The Surgions Mate: The First Compendium on Naval Medicine, Surgery and Drug Therapy (London 1617)


Year: 2016
Language: english
Author: John Woodall & Irmgard Müller
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 978-3319255729
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 347
Description: 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 concerning the provision of instruments and medicaments on board. To this end he wrote an instructive manual for ship surgeons with the title “The Surgions Mate”, published in 1617 in London and edited repeatedly until 1655, listing essential instruments and remedies for the use at sea and providing detailed annotations. The manual’s particularities include notes on the portion of paracelsian drugs, the first enema of tobacco, the treatment of gunshot wounds and the strong recommendation of lemon juice against scurvy. Moreover, descriptions of injuries, instruments, and many diseases as a result of Woodall’s extended personal observations at sea are given.
The present edition of this exceptional classic includes comprehensive annotations on the first medical chest and its application on sailing ships. Also, the implications of Woodall’s achievements in regard to the development of ship medicine and pharmacy in other seafaring nations are discussed. The book will appeal to historians of medicine and interested readers alike.
Additional info: Presents the most important ship medicine handbook ("The Surgions Mate") in a modern reproduction.
Includes a detailed commentary on a text that revolutionized ship medicine with a comprehensive index of drugs and instruments used in 16th-17th century ship medicine.

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