A treatise containing a plan for the internal organization and government of marine hospitals, in the United States; : together with observations on military and flying hospitals, and a scheme for amending and systematizing the medical department of the Navy. / By William P.C. Barton, M.D. surgeon in the Navy of the United States, stationed at the Navy-Yard, Philadelphia, and formerly physician to the Army in the 4th military district; president of the Philadelphia Linnean Society, and professor of botany in the University of Pennsylvania.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856.

Contributor:

Parker, Daniel, 1782-1846, dedicatee.

Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856, illustrator.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 40142.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitals, Naval and marine.

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 240 pages, 1 unnumbered page, xx-xxv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 23 cm500

Edition:

The second edition, with emendations and additions.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed for the author, and sold only by him., 1817.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Diagram of a "chimney-place-stove," signed: W.P.C.B. del. et fecit acid.

Copyright Jan. 27, 1817 by William P.C. Barton.

Dedicated to Daniel Parker, Esq. adjutant and inspector-general of the Army of the United States.

A reissue of the sheets of the 1814 edition (Shaw & Shoemaker 30809). "Certain preliminary matter, the 'Conclusion' and the appendix of the earlier edition are omitted. The dedication is changed and a new preface added. Part of the material on the Pennsylvania Hospital is replaced by the new section (p. 130-133) on 'military and flying hospitals.' The introduction (p. [135]-144) to the 2d part ... is reprinted with alterations. Slip cancels and an excision take care of the changes in the table of contents. ..."--Austin.

"Errata."--p. [xxvi].

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