Diary of a physician in California
Subtitle: being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
By: By James L. Tyson, M.D.
Contributors: YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: D. Appleton & company; G.S. Appleton
Published: 1850
Place of publication: New York; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Voyages to the Pacific coast; Ethnic groups -- California; California -- Description and travel; California -- Gold discoveries
Description: Dr. James L. Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. Diary of a physician in California (1850) recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical practice and his hospital at Cold Spring, where his patients included a number of Oregonians. Tyson closes his hospital at the end of the summer, sailing from San Francisco as a ship's physician, crossing the Isthmus and landing in the United States in December 1849. His diary pays special attention to miners' health and working conditions.
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