Plain remarks on the accidents and diseases which occur most frequently at sea
Subtitle: with directions for using the medicines contained in the medicine chest
By: Carefully put up and replenished by [blank]
Publisher: J.N. Bang,--printer. 30 Cornhill.
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Naval Medicine; Popular Medicine; Materia medica
Notes: "The disorders to which men are subject, are so many, and so intricate, that it is not possible to lay down directions proper for their treatment, any further than to mitigate the most obvious symptoms, and in some measure to conduce to a cure by assisting nature. It is very seriously recommended to all masters of vessels and supercargoes, whenever they are in harbor, that they send for a physician or surgeon upon the first attack of any disease, or immediately after an injury happens to any one--that they take advice, so as to employ the most experienced and judicious in their professions--and in a particular manner that they do not employ ignorant quacks, who are in the habit of visiting foreign vessels, impose on the seamen, and often put an end to their lives."--Notice, p. [3].