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.
| ISBN: | 9780415924528 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2001 |
| Author: | Joan Druett |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 280 pages |
| Genres: |
Military history General and world history History of medicine |