Parsons, U: Physician for Ships

Excerpt from Physician for Ships: Containing Medical Advice for Seamen and Other Persons at Sea, on the Treatment of Diseases, and on the Preservation of Health in Sickly Climates

Former editions of this work contained extracts from reviews of it inserted in medical journals, in which learned men of the profession extolled its value to the full measure of its deserts. Having now reached the fourth edition, the character of the work is too extensively known and established to need any such high commendations, and the pages they occupied are therefore filled with more useful matter.

The chapter containing advice to Invalids who seek health in a warmer climate has been improved a new chapter of several pages on California has been added, containing advice to persons bound to that region, both by sea and overland, for the preservation of health and cure of disease on their way and while employed at the gold diggings the medicine chest has been revised and improved, and the chapters on ship-fever and on cholera have been enlarged, and several additions and improvements made in other parts of the work.

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