Rough Medicine
Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
By Joan Druett
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-92451-1
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 4th October 2000
- Pages: 224
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About the Book
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.
About the Author(s)
Joan Druettis the author of
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea(2000) and
Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail(1998). She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
