1557 PICTORIUS, Georg (1500 – 1569)
Raiss Büchlein…mit güten Mitteln der Artzney Begegnen Soll.
The first pocket reference for travelers by land or sea, dealing with topics such as infected genitalia, frostbite, fouled drinking water, shipboard stench, the best boots and shoes. The recipes in this work comprised…
GMN 10726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12920
1696 COCKBURN, William (1669 – 1739)
An account of the nature, causes, symptoms, and cure of the distempers that are incident in seafaring people. With observations on the diet of the sea-men in his Majesty’s navy.
Cockburn studied medicine at Leiden; he became famous on account of his secret remedy for dysentery. The book is a record of two years spent as a ship’s doctor.
GMN 2147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2734
1734 ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
The navy-surgeon, or a practical system of surgery.
Atkins was an English naval surgeon. His book includes some useful case reports and contains the first English description of African trypanosomiasis.
GMN 2148 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2737
1757 LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
An essay on the most effectual means, of preserving the health of seamen, in the Royal Navy.
Lind is regarded as the founder of naval hygiene in England. Besides his work on scurvy (see No.3713), he is notable for the above book, which deals not only with the men but also with the appalling conditions in whic…
GMN 2151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2746
1774 FALCK, Nicolai Detlef (1736 – 1783)
The seaman's medical instructor, in a course of lectures on accidents and diseases incident to seamen, in the various climates of the world. Calculated for ships that carry no surgeon. The whole delivered in a plain language and founded upon a long and successful experience.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 9519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11704
1776 PRINGLE, Sir John (1707 – 1782)
A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners.
Besides his pioneer work in military medicine, Pringle did much to improve the conditions of sailors afloat. See also Nos. 2150 & 3714.
GMN 2156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2758
1779 MILLAR, John (1733 – 1805)
Observations on the management of the prevailing diseases particularly in the Army and Navy; together with a review of that in other countries, and arithmetical calculations of the comparative success of different methods of cure.
Millar promoted mathematical methods for computing the comparative success of different methods of cure. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11650
1779 ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
A physical journal kept on board H. M. Ship Rainbow during three voyages to the coast of Africa and the West Indies, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774: To which is prefixed, a particular account of the remitting fever which happened on board of His Majesty's Sloop Weasel, on that coast, in 1769.
GMN 9501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11686
1785 BLANE, Sir Gilbert (1749 – 1834)
Observations on the diseases incident to seamen.
William Hunter recommended Blane as private physician to Admiral Rodney; Blane sailed with him to the W. Indies and became physician to the British Fleet. He was held in great esteem in the navy and was instrumental i…
GMN 2158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/842
1797 –1803 TROTTER, Thomas (1760 – 1832)
Medicina nautica; an essay on the diseases of seamen. 3 vols.
Trotter has left an excellent account of the conditions of seamen at the beginning of the 19th century. His book includes an interesting theory of the causation of fevers. He worked hard to improve the conditions of t…
GMN 2159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/858
1807 CURTIS, Charles
An account of the diseases of India, as they appeared in the English fleet, and in the naval hospital at Madras, in 1782 and 1783; with observations on ulcers, and the hospital sores of that country, &c. & c. To which is prefixed a view of the diseases of an expedition and passage of a fleet and armament to India, in 1781.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10992
1816 BURNETT, William Sir (1779 – 1861)
A practical account of the Mediterranean fever, as it appeared in the ships and hospitals of His Majesty's fleet on that station: With cases and dissections. To which are added facts and observations, illustrative of the causes, symptoms and treatment comprehending the history of the fever in the fleet, during the years 1810, 1811, 1813, and of the Gibraltar and Carthagena fevers.
"Burnett in 1816 described an epidemic of a short term fever occurring among the Naval Forces engaged in the Siege of Malta in 1799, and this fever was almost certainly phlebotomus" (Coulter, The Royal Naval Medical S…
GMN 11143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13340
1832 FORGET, Charles-Polydore (1800 – 1861)
Médecine navale ou nouveaux éléments d'hygiène, de pathologie et de thérapeutique médico-chirurgicales, à l'usage des officiers de santé de la marine de l'Etat et du commerce. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
GMN 13618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15898
1846 WILSON, John (1788 – 1870)
Medical notes on China.
Wilson served as Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets from 1841 to 1843 onboard the Minden, a British hospital ship deployed in China at Chusan and Hong Kong at the end of 1841 to treat casualties in the First Opium War …
GMN 13739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16023
1856 FONSSAGRIVES, Jean-Baptiste (1823 – 1884)
Traité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.
One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 9667 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11854
1870 WILSON, Joseph; GORGAS, Albert C. ( – 1895)
Naval hygiene, by Joseph Wilson, Surgeon United States Navy: With an Appendix: Moving wounded men on shipboards by Albert C. Gorgas, Surgeon United States Navy.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15329
1874 BERGER, Charles; REY, Henri
Répertoire bibliographique des médecins et des pharmaciens de la marine française 1698-1873.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13325
1879 WILSON, Joseph
Naval hygiene. Human health and the means of preventing disease. With illustrative incidents principally derived from naval experience.
Includes chromolithographed plates. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1879) from Google Books at this link. WorldCat cites only this second edition with this title and Wilson's work of 1870 (No. 13077). Therefo…
GMN 13078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15330
1893 WALES, Philip Skinner (1837 – 1906)
Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.
GMN 10717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12911
1900 YASUZUMI, Saneyoshi (1848 – 1932)
The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.
Surgical history of the naval aspects of the First Sino-Japanese War. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11604
1917 INDERWICK, James ( – 1815); PALSITS, Victor Hugo (1867 – 1952)
Cruise of the U.S. brig Argus in 1813. Journal of surgeon James Inderwick, edited from the original manuscript in the New York Public Library with an introduction and notes by Victor Hugo Paltsits.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15321
1954 –1956 COULTER, Jack Leonard Sagar (1907 – 1969)
The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.
GMN 9199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11380
1957 ROGERS, Fred Blackburn (1889 – 1974); DUVALL, Marius (1818 – 1891)
A navy surgeon in California 1846-1847. The journal of Marius Duvall. Edited by Fred Blackburn Rogers.
GMN 10993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13189
1995 LANGLEY, Harold David (1925 – )
A history of medicine in the early U.S. Navy.
GMN 7888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10060
1997 HERMAN, Jan K.
Battle station sick bay: Navy medicine in World War II.
GMN 10247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12437
2006 HERMAN, Jan K.
Frozen in memory: U.S. Navy medicine in the Korean War.
GMN 10248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12438
2008 HERMAN, Jan K.
Navy medicine in Vietnam: Oral histories from Dien Bein Phu to the fall of Saigon.
GMN 10246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12436
2010 HERMAN, Jan K.
Navy medicine in Vietnam: Passage to freedom to the fall of Saigon.
GMN 8016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10192
2010 BRISOU, Bernard; SARDET, Michel
Dictionnaire des médecins, chirurgiens et pharmaciens de la marine.
Concerns physicians, surgeons and pharmacists who served in the French navy.
GMN 11130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13326
2013
US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Office of Medical History Collection.
https://archive.org/details/usnavybumedhistoryoffice&tab=collection "A historical component has existed at the US Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery since May 1907 with the establishment of the Publications Office.…
GMN 9949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12138
