The Bizarre World of Old Ship Medical Books
Check out my PATREON: / dimestoreadventures HUGE thank you to my PATREON SUPER SUPPORTERS: Cody Nova BIG SUM Carson W Kevin Beck Conor Johnson Daniel Monsalve micky! Kyle Jonathan Hays Alexander Morgan Anastasi Andrew Reda Jason Farque Daniel Russ Determan The_Y Daniel Lano Cody Armacher Aaron Greig Drkek Jason Morrey Jeffrey Hacker The Grand Poobah Lottie Hew Jeremy Chase-Israel Will Surrette LepcisMagna Luke Fuller Sam Markey Josiah Parker crocoalala The Bittersteel Charles Bones Joseph Walla JB Riley Flamingo ---------------------------------------------------- Medicine Chests & Symptom Books. Whole lotta strange stuff going on in 19th century ship medicine. ---------------------------------------------------- Sources/Further Reading: A Treasury of New England Folklore, B.A. Botkin - 1947 (where I first heard about these!) New Hampshire Sentinel - Jun 10, 1891 Star Tribune - April 17th, 1898 The Ship's Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea, U.S. Public Health Service - 1947 Handbook for the Ship's Medicine Chest, George Stoner - 1904 The Mariner’s Medical Guide - James Folsom, 1884 The Ship's Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea - U.S. Public Health Service, 1947 Cista militaris, Wilhelm Fabricius - 1674 A Message From The Sea - Charles Dickens, 1860 Federal Regulations in Regard to Seamen in the American Merchant Marine - Palliser, 1911 A Fortnite At The Dead Lake - Paul Heyse, 1870 The Tazwell Republican - November 18th, 1909 The Hancock Democrat - August 12th, 1909 St Albans Daily Messenger - July 11th, 1902 Hand-book for the ship's medicine chest, U.S. Public Health Service - 1881 Cox's companion to the family medicine chest - Edward Cox, 1887 A medical manual and medicine chest companion, Thomas Ritter - 1847 Boston Sunday Globe - January 23rd, 1898 The Polynesian - August 01, 1857 The American Review Of Reviews - November, 1922 Portland Press Herald - March 30th, 1843 The New York Evening Post - December 13th, 1848 The Weekly Graphic - October 14, 1892 The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette - May 25, 1912 The Bemidji daily pioneer, - November 25, 1915 Golden Valley chronicle - September 24, 1915 Passaic City Record - September 17, 1898 Grant County Herald - August 05, 1897 The New Bloomfield, Pa. times - December 25, 1877 Southern Standard - August 27, 1887 The Nantucket Scrap Basket, Hussey & Macy - 1916 The Ship's Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea, U.S. Public Health Service - 1929
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