Medical essays : compiled from reports to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery / by medical officers of the U.S. Navy.

Washington : Government Printing Office, 1872.

367 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references

Practical suggestions in naval hygiene -- Resection of head of femur for gunshot wound -- An account of the yellow fever which appeared in December, 1866, and prevailed on board the United States store and hospital ship Jamestown, at Panama -- An account of the yellow fever which appeared on board the United States ship Saratoga in June, 1869 -- Sanitary condition of the United States Asiatic squadron during the period of two years, from April 1 1868 to March 31, 1870 -- On diabetes -- Case of erosion of the entire penis (compiled from naval hospital records) -- Reports upon certain English hospitals, --Schedules of examinations at Netley -- Reports upon the hospitals, charitable institutions, and peculiar diseases of Peru -- Experiments and observations in naval hygiene

Edited by A.L. Gihon

This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.