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The navy-Surgeon: or, a practical system of surgery. Illustrated with observations on such remarkable Cases, as have occurred to the Author's Practice in the Service of the Royal Navy. To which is added, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, the Causes, Symptoms, and Method of Cure by Mercury: 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; with useful Remarks thereon. 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; with a Method of Cure. By John Atkins, Surgeon.

Cistern (?) and pipes on board the hospital ship H.M.S. Inflexible. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

A catalogue of books, in medicine, surgery, anatomy, chemistry, &c. : new and second hand ... sold by T. Underwood ... To which are added, tables of the pay of the Medical Department of the Army, Navy, and East India Company's service, a complete list of the lectures delivered in London, with their terms, hours of attendance, &c. &c.

Wash basins on board a naval hospital train showing the attached table top on which meals were served. Glass positive, ca. 1919.

Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service.

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Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service.