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A treatise containing a plan for the internal organization and government of marine hospitals in the United States; together with a scheme for amending and systematizing the medical department of the Navy ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RA975 .B3 1817
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- United States. Navy.
- United States.
- Hospitals, Naval and marine.
- Hospitals, Naval and marine--United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837 (inscription)
- Barton, William P. C. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 240, that is, 242 pages, xix unnumbered pages-xxv pages, 1 unnumbered page : plate. ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- The second edition, with emendations and additions.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed for the author, and sold only by him, 1817.
- Notes:
- This edition is listed in Poore's Descriptive cat. of government publications, p. 115, with note that it was "purchased by the Government, for distribution among officials."
- Mainly a reissue of the sheets of the 1814 edition (text of "Part first" through p. 129; "Part second" from p. 135 through p. 240) 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, on the medical department of the Navy, is reprinted with alterations. Slip cancels and an excision take care of the changes in the table of contents. The errata (p. [xxvi]) are the same as in the first edition.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the author, 1819.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 40142
- Sabin 3862
- Shaw/Shoemaker 40142
- OCLC:
- 7403621
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