The navy-surgeon: or, a practical system of surgery ... To which is added, a treatise on the venereal disease ... an enquiry into the origin of that distemper; in which the dispute between Dr. Dover, and Dr. Turner, concerning crude mercury, is fully consider'd ... Also an appendix, containing physical observations on the heat, moisture, and density of the air on the coast of Guiney; the colour of the natives; the sicknesses which they and the Europeans trading thither are subject to / [John Atkins].

  • Atkins, John, 1685-1757.
Date:
1734
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London : C. Ward and R. Chandler, 1734.

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2 unnumbered leaves, x, 10 unnumbered pages, 257, vii, 2 unnumbered pages, 28 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; (12mo)

Notes

Includes (p. 364-367) the first English description of African trypanosomiasis
Copy 1 Note: P. 241-242 of text & 23-26 of Appendix wanting, supplied by xerox copies.

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