19th Century American Whaling -
Medicine

Directions for the Medicine Chest.
      North Shields [Eng.]: W. Kelley, 1795.
   1 unnumbered leaf, 25 pages ; (8vo)

Joel & Jotham Post (Firm).
      Directions for medicine chest.
New-York : Printed by William A. Davis ..., 1804
    16 p.

Heermann, Lewis, 1779-1833.
      Directions for the medicine chest.
New-Orleans: Printed by John Mowry, & Co., 1811.
   [6], 6-35 p.

George W. Hoppin.
      Medicine Chest and Instructive Advice with Directions for Ships and Family Use.
"Prepared and put up by George W. Hoppin, Providence, R.I."
Providence: John Miller, 1823.
   21 pages ; 20 cm.

      A Companion to the Medicine Chest; or, Plain Directions for the Employment of the Various Medicines and Utensils Contained in it; and for the Treatment of Diseases.
  New York: W. Lunt Bradbury, 1834.
   7 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm (12mo).

Usher Parsons, M.D., 1788-1868.
      Physicians for Ships; containing Medical Advice for Seamen and Other Persons at Sea on the Treatment of Diseases, and on the Preservation of Health in Sickly Climates, and also in California.
4th edition.
Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1851.
   216 pages; 20 cm.
Fourth Edition.

Hand-book for the Ship's Medicine Chest.
  [United States. Marine Hospital Service.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881.
   45 pages; illus.

Cox's Companion to the Family Medicine Chest and Compendium of Domestic Medicine; Particularly Adapted for Heads of Families, Ship-Captains, Missionaries, and Colonists, With Plain Rules for Taking the Medicines, to which are Added a Plain Description of the Treatment of Fractures and Dislocations, and a Concise Account of Asiatic or Spasmodic Cholera.
  Revised, and Considerably Enlarged, by a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Forty-Eighth Edition.
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1887.
   ix, 177 pages ; 15 cm
48th ed.

Archibald Finlay.
      The Seaman’s Medical Guide in Preserving The Health of a Ship’S Crew; Containing Plain Directions for the Use of the Medicines in the Cure of Diseases, &c. With full instructions for the treatment of fractures and dislocations, Illustrated by numerous engravings, The best method of restoring suspended animation from drowning, &&c. With a complete index of contents. Comprising also the government scale of medicines Revised to 1900.
London: George Philip & Son., Ltd.,1900
   xxi, 181 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
[New ed.].