Medical essays : compiled from reports to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery / by medical officers of the U.S. Navy.

Washington : G.P.O., 1872.

367 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Practical suggestions in naval hygiene, by A.L.Gihon.--Resection of head of femur for gunshot wound, by W.E. Taylor.--An account of the yellow fever which appeared in December, 1866, and prevailed on board the United States store and hospital ship Jamestown, at Panama, by D. Bloodgood.--An account of the yellow fever which appeared on board the United States ship Saratoga in June, 1869, by L.S. Pilcher.--Sanitary condition of the United States Asiatic squadron during the period of two years, from April 1 1868 to March 31, 1870, by R.T. Maccoun.--On diabetes, by J.McClelland.--Case of erosion of the entire penis (compiled from naval hospital records), by .S.W. Ruschenberger.--Reports upon certain English hospitals, by E. Shippen.--Schedules of examinations at Netley.--Reports upon the hospitals, charitable institutions, and peculiar diseases of Peru, by J.T.Browne.--Experiments and observations in naval hygiene, by E.D. Payne.