BOOK: Medicine at Sea

THE SHIPS MEDICINE CHEST AND FIRST AID AT SEA

This fine old book, not in mint condition, but mostly together, is filled with photographs and drawings that might make one blush...considering the subject...I guess, this is to be expected.

Did you know:

• ...the duty of furnishing medical and surgical relief to sick and disabled American merchant seaman was assumed by the Federal Government in 1798, both to assure proper medical attention for seaman and to relieve seaport communities from the burden of caring for these transients, who for the most part did not make any substantial contribution to the support of the communities through property-owning and the payment of taxes...

...from the first paragraph of the Forward:  The Ship's Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea