Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Classic Texts in the Sciences
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	05. 10. 2016
Seiten	:	343
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	240 mm
Breite	:	168 mm
Gewicht	:	763 g
ISBN	:	9783319255729
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Prof. Irmgard Müller is Emeritus Professor in History of Medicine at the University of Bochum and an outstanding researcher in the field.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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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.

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