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World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.

Boer War: the ward of a hospital ship in which a nurse converses with an anxious lady and her daughter. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.

A seaman telling the ship's doctor that hard work is bad for him. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.

The medical quarters of the Melbourne, a ship of the Line: a ward deck, above, and an operating theatre, below. Wood engraving, 1860.

Le medecin de mer, ou, Traité élémentaire de pathologie interne et externe / par J. Moulinié.

Abstractum chirurgiae marinae., or, An abstract of sea chirurgery : designed for the use of such chirurgeons who desire to serve at sea, yet are unacquainted with sea practice : in order to their restoring to health of sick or wounded sea-men; but may all fitly serve for most chirurgeons.  In three compendious books.  The first containeth certain directions necessary to be observed by the sea-chirurgeon in his fitting out.  The second teacheth how he should perform his chirurgical duty being at sea, both in an ingagement and at other times.  The third instructeth how he must execute the phisical office imposed on him / by John Moyle.

M0006154: Portrait of Sir William Beatty (1773-1842)

Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

The influence of climate, and other agents, on the human constitution : with reference to the causes and prevention of disease, among seamen : with observations on fever in general, and an account of the epidemic fever of Jamaica / by Robert Armstrong.

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Medicine, Naval

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Images about Medicine, Naval

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Le medecin de mer, ou, Traité élémentaire de pathologie interne et externe / par J. Moulinié.

M0006154: Portrait of Sir William Beatty (1773-1842)

Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

The influence of climate, and other agents, on the human constitution : with reference to the causes and prevention of disease, among seamen : with observations on fever in general, and an account of the epidemic fever of Jamaica / by Robert Armstrong.

Medicine, Naval

Images from the collections

Images about Medicine, Naval

Works from the collections

Le medecin de mer, ou, Traité élémentaire de pathologie interne et externe / par J. Moulinié.

M0006154: Portrait of Sir William Beatty (1773-1842)

Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

The influence of climate, and other agents, on the human constitution : with reference to the causes and prevention of disease, among seamen : with observations on fever in general, and an account of the epidemic fever of Jamaica / by Robert Armstrong.

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