Medicine and the Navy 1200-1900 [Volume III - 1714-1815]

E-336: E. & S. Livingstone. Very Good. 1961. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by E & S Livingstone, Ltd, Edinburgh and London, UK. 1961. 402 pgs. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In a review of Medicine and the Navy, I200-900, vol. I, in the Lancet, a succinct tribute to the accomplishments of Dr. Keevil was paid by the reviewer when he commented on the fact that no one, sailor, surgeon, or man of letters, had until now written a history of naval medicine, and added that this deficiency had been made good by one who had distinguished himself in all three vocations. Volume 3 of set, this covering period of Jenkins Ear and Austrian Succession, Seven Years War, War of American Independence, the Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Sections on all aspects of naval medicine during this period. Excellent illustrations, including gun deck of hospital ship HMS Blenheim from 1743. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .