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.

4 unnumbered pages, xv, 1 unnumbered page, 550 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

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

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

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.

viii, xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, [17]-560, xv pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)

Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.

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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.

Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.

Medicine, Naval

Images from the collections

Images referencing 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.

Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.

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