Medical essays
Subtitle: compiled from reports to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
By: by medical officers of the U.S. Navy
Contributors: Gihon, Albert Leary, 1833-1901; Taylor, William E.; Bloodgood, Delavan, 1831-1902; Pilcher, Lewis Stephen, 1845-1934; Maccoun, Robert T.; McClelland, James; Ruschenberger, W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman), 1807-1895; Shippen, Edward, 1826-1911; Browne, John Mills, 1831-1894; Payne, Edward Duggan
Series: Contributions to medicine and surgery from the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery -- 1
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Notes: Edited by A.L. Gihon.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Practical suggestions in naval hygiene; title: Resection of head of femur for gunshot wound; title: An account of the yellow fever which appeared in December, 1866, and prevailed on board the United States store and hospital ship Jamestown, at Panama; title: An account of the yellow fever which appeared on board the United States ship Saratoga in June, 1869; title: Sanitary condition of the United States Asiatic squadron during the period of two years, from April 1 1868 to March 31, 1870; title: On diabetes; title: Case of erosion of the entire penis (compiled from naval hospital records); title: Reports upon certain English hospitals,; title: Schedules of examinations at Netley; title: Reports upon the hospitals, charitable institutions, and peculiar diseases of Peru; title: Experiments and observations in naval hygiene.