Title: The navy-surgeon: or, a practical system of surgery. Illustrated with observations on such remarkable cases as have occurred to the author's practice in the service of the Royal Navy. To which is added, a treatise on the venereal disease, the causes, symptoms, and method of cure by mercury: an enquiry into the origin of that distemper; in which the dispute between Dr. Dover and Dr. Turner, concerning crude mercury, is fully consider'd; with useful remarks thereon. Also an appendix, containing physical observations on the heat, moisture, and density of the air on the coast of Guiney; the colour of the natives, the sicknesses which they and the Europeans trading thither are subject to; with a method of cure.
Authors: Atkins, John, 1685-1757.
Publisher: Printed for W. Warner,
Year: 1737