@article{620998, recid = {620998}, author = {Atkins, John,}, title = {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. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed for W. Warner, at Dryden's Head, next the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar,}, address = {London :}, pages = {[6],x,[10],257,vii,28p. ;}, year = {1737}, note = {A reissue of the 1734 edition, without the separate titlepage for the appendix.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/620998}, }