num_pages: 270
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.
language: English
title: Rough Medicine
titlecomplete: Rough Medicine
genres: Medicine, Science, History, Medical, Nonfiction, History Of Science
ratings_count: 56
publisher: Routledge