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Medical essays : compiled from reports to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery / by medical officers of the U.S. Navy.
United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Date: 1872- Books
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An inaugural dissertation on the functions of the uterus : submitted to the public examination of the trustees and professors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the University of the State of New-York, Samuel Bard, M.D. president, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 6th day of May, 1816 / by Benjamin P. Kissam, surgeon in the United States Navy ; licentiate in medicine and surgery of the Medical Society of New York ; and honorary member of the American Aesculpian Society.
Kissam, Benjamin P., 1785-1828.Date: 1816- Books
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A description of Holland: or, the present state of the United Provinces. Wherein is contained, a particular account of the Hague, and all the Principal Cities and Towns of the Republick, with their Buildings, Curiosities, &c. Of the Manner and Customs of the Dutch; their Constition, Legislature, Sovereign Courts, Ministry, Revenue, Forces by Sea and Land, Navy, Admiralty, Bank, East-India Company, Navigation, Commerce, in Asia, Africa, and America; and with Great-Britain, France, Spain, and the other States of Europe. Their Universities, Arts, Sciences, Men of Letters, &c. To which are added, directions for making the tour of the provinces.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The present state of Holland, or a description of the United Provinces. Wherein is contained, A Particular Account of the Hague, and all the Principal Cities and Towns of the Republick, with their Buildings, Curiosities, &c. Of the Manner's and Custom's of the Dutch; their Constition, Legislature, Sovereign Courts Ministry Revenue, Forces by Sea and Land, Navy, Admiralty, Bank, East-India Company, Navigation, Commerce, in Asia, Africa and America; and with Great-Brittain, France, Spain, and the other States of Europe. Their Universities, Arts, Sciences, Men of Letters, &c. To which are added, Directions for making the Tour of the Provinces.
Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The ship-Master's assistant and owner's manual: containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to Officers and other in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In The Course Of Which, The following Subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & Other Ship-Accounts. With Accounts for the Coal-Trade, and valuable Remarks thereon. 2. Instructions for the Officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and Imaginary Monies of the World: and Tables of the Agreement which the Weights and Measures of the principal Places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of Captures by his Majesty's Ships and private Vessels of War. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and Seamen's Wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of Regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, Charter-Parties, & Demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. Pilots and Pilotage, and Rates of Pilotage in the Royal Navy. 15. Marine Insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomby and Respondentia 18. Bills of Exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights. 24. Southern Whale-Fishery. 25. British Fisheries. 26. Newfoundland Fisheries. 27. Oister-Fisheries. 28. Regulation of Seamen in the Coasting-Trade. 29. Slave-Trade. 30. Act for Registering Boats, Barges, &c. 31. Act for Consolidation of the Duties. 32. Duties in the United States of America. 33. Duties at the Sound. The seventh edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the Acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The ship-master's assistant and owner's manual: Containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In the course of̀ which, the following subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & other ship-accounts. 2. Instructions for the officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and imaginary monies of the world; and tables of the agreement which the weights and measures o the principal places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of captures by His Majesty's ships and private vessels of war. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and seamen's wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, charter-parties, & demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. PIots and pilotage. 15. Marine insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomry and respondentia 18. Bills of exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland seas and davis's streights. 24. Southern whale-fishery. 25. British fisheries. 26. Newfoundland fisheries. 27. Oyster-fisheries. 28. Regulation of seamen in the coasting-trade. 29. Slave-trade. 30. Act for consolidation of the duties. 31. Duties in the United States of America. 32. Duties at the sound. The fifth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the Acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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Report on medical and surgical developments of the war / by William Seaman Bainbridge.
Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947.Date: 1919- Books
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Observations on the means of preserving the health of soldiers and sailors : and on the duties of the medical department of the Army and Navy : with remarks on hospitals and their internal arrangement / by Edward Cutbush, M.D.
Cutbush, Edward, 1772-1843.Date: 1808- Books
History of medicine in the United States / by Francis R. Packard ... 103 illustrations.
Packard, Francis R. (Francis Randolph), 1870-1950.Date: 1931- Books
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The ship-Master's assistant and owner's manual: containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to Officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In The Course Of Which, The following Subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & Other Ship-Accounts. With Accounts fot the Coal-Trade, and valuable Remarks thereon. 2. Instructions for the Officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and imaginary Monies of the World; and Tables of the Agroement which the Weights and Measures of the principal Places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of Captures by his Majesty's Ships and private Vessels of War. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and Seamen's Wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of Regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, Charter-Parties, & Demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. Pilots and Pilotage. 15. Marine Insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomry and Respondentia 18. Bills of Exchange. 19. Quarantinf. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights. 24. Southern Whale-Fishery. 25. British Fisheries. 26. Newfoundland Fisheries. 27. Oister-Fisheries. 28. Regulation of Seamen in the Coasting-Trade. 29. Slave-Trade. 30. Act for Registering Boats, Barges, &c. 31. Act for Consolidation of the Duties. 32. Duties in the United States of America. 33. Duties at the Sound. The sixth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Steel, David.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795] [1796]- Books
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Letter from the secretary of state, accompanying his report on the claim of John Brown Cutting, for a reimbursement of his expeditures, and a compensation for his services, in the year 1790, in liberating and relieving American seamen impressed into the British navy. 27th February, 1799. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States.
United States. Department of State.Date: [1799]- Archives and manuscripts
USA Visit
Date: 1946-1948Reference: PP/WDP/D/3/5Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Journals
United States naval medical bulletin.
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Message from the president of the United States, transmitting a report of the secretary of war, on certain measures which appear to him to be necessary for the improvement of our military system. 13th January, 1800. Referred to the committee, appointed on the 9th ultime, t whom was referred so much of the speech of the president as relates to "a system of national defence, commensurate with our resources, and the situation of our country." Printed by order of the House of Representatives of the United States.
United States. War Department.Date: 1800]- Journals
Statistics of navy medicine.
Date: [1945-]- Books
Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States : compiled from the records of the Surgeon General's Office, embracing a period of five years, from January, 1855 to January, 1860 / prepared under the direction of Thomas Lawson by Richard H. Coolidge.
United States. Surgeon-General's Office.Date: 1860- Pictures
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A woman wearing a sandwich-board inscribed "I've got VD", showing the absurdity of the assumption that a woman would not pass on a venereal infection to an American sailor. Colour lithograph, 1948.
Date: 1948Reference: 580227i- Books
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Hygienic and medical reports / by medical officers of the U.S. Navy ; prepared for publication ... by Joseph B. Parker, assistant to the Bureau.
Date: 1879- Books
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A system for the discipline of the artillery of the United States of America, or, The young artillerist's pocket companion. In three parts. Part I. Containing: The formation of a corps of artillery, and the duty and practice of light field artillery, &c. Part II. Containing: The theory and practice of heavy artillery, in garrison and on board the navy; and an extract of a treatise on the origin and principles of courts martial. Part III. Containing: Laboratory duty; a great variety of directions for compositions, and the method of making artificial fire works, with the formation of ammunition necessary for the different kinds of ordnance. In three volumes. By William Stevens. An officer in the American artillery through the whole of the late Revolution, and since in the militia.
Stevens, William, 1752-1801.Date: --1797--- Pictures
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The hand of an American sailor about to pick up a lace handkerchief representing venereal disease. Colour lithograph, 1948.
Date: 1948Reference: 580225i- Pictures
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An American sailor sits disconsolately in his pyjamas, regretting his infection with a venereal disease incurable with penicillin. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
Date: [1948?]Reference: 580287i- Books
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Letter from the secretary of war, to the chairman of the committee, appointed on the 9th of December last, on so much of the speech of the president, as relates to "a system of national defence, commensurate with our resources, and the situation of our country." 13th February, 1800. Ordered to lie on the table.
United States. War Department.Date: 1800]- Books
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The Bureau of Chemistry and Soils : its history, activities and organization / by Gustavus A. Weber.
Weber, Gustavus Adolphus, 1863-1942.Date: 1928- Pictures
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An American sailor sitting on a hospital bed, prevented by venereal disease from joining his ship. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
Date: [1948?]Reference: 580226i- Books
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Speech, of the Hon. John Allen, (one of the representatives from the state of Connecticut) in the House of Representatives of the United States; in committee of the whole on the state of the union. April 20, 1798.
Allen, John, 1763-1812.Date: [1798]