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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of U.S. Naval Board of Medical Surgeons examinations, theses, and letters of introduction
Creator:
United States. Navy Department. Board of Medical Surgeons
Source:
Zephyr
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0407
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(24 items)
Date (inclusive): 1839-1859
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Letters of introduction (A.L.s.) and handwritten medical examinations and theses are addressed to the U.S. Naval Board of
Medical Surgeons and later the Naval Board of Medical Examiners. Letters include some details on stationing and experience
with ships' surgeons. Written examinations and brief theses describe diseases and treatments and include: W.S. Bell on surgical
anatomy of the neck -- G.H.B. Guillou on gonorrhea -- G.W. Howell on pneumonia -- O.S. Inglehart on history, preparation and
uses of squills -- E. Hudson on water and its medicinal virtues -- Dr. Kellogg on epistaxis -- J.W. Lowell on varieties and
treatment of aneurysm -- C.D. Mackineer on rheumatism -- A. Miles on remittant fever -- J.N.K. Monmonier on history, preparations
and uses of acetic acid -- J.C. Palmer on diseases of the liver -- D.B. Phillips on effects of habitual and long continued
use of fermented and distilled liquors -- A. Rice on peritonitis -- C.H. Wheelwright on phthisis pulmonalis -- S.G. White
on burns and scalds.
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Zephyr