Macdonagh, James Armstrong (1820-1899)

  • Macdonagh, James Armstrong, 1820-1899
Date:
1853
Reference:
WMS/Amer.139
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Description

Journal of a voyage as ship's surgeon on the emigrant ship Star sailing from New Ross, Co. Wexford, to Quebec 29 April to 13 June 1853; with observations on subsequent travels in Upper and Lower Canada. Canada Both journal and observations include medical detail.

The observations include comments on local events, scenes, cities, and Indians; also on national and local government, defences, economics and commerce, land ownership, topography, climate, education, and ecclesiastical organisation.

Publication/Creation

1853

Physical description

Pp. 112 (= 113) 23 x 19 cm. Original cloth cover.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1931

Biographical note

Macdonagh, elected FRCS in 1873, was educated at Trinity College Dublin and in London, entered the Cunard Company's service as surgeon, served as civil surgeon in the Crimea, and become a well known general practitioner in Hampstead (London) active in local affairs.

Finding aids

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

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  • 79507