The Bizarre World of Old Ship Medical Books

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Medicine Chests & Symptom Books. Whole lotta strange stuff going on in 19th century ship medicine.
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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