Naval Medicine

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Primarily professional photographs of the hospital ship USS Repose. Some personal photographs of Stevens in his Navy uniform, recuperating servicemen patients, shore leave scenes, shipboard scenes of San Francisco and Shanghai, China. Also printed Naval ephemera, his dog tags, and uniform insignia patches.

Collection Summary

Essays about a sailor's life, the dangers and glories of the sea, and some natural medicinal substances that originate in the oceans. Apparently Burge sailed on the unnamed vessel as the ship's doctor. The first essay describes a trip, probably from New York, around the tip of South America to China and the South Pacific.

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Comprises a medical journal kept aboard the U.S.S. Mohican, and related materials.

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Six essays, probably submitted by medical students. Topics include gunshot wounds, the pulse, nervous system, concussions, physiology of nerves, apoplexy. One other report officially submitted to Thomas Dillard, U.S. Navy surgeon, Philadelphia Hospital, on the health of seamen.

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Contains records kept by Jacobs, then a U.S. Public Health Service officer, while assigned to the Campbell as medical officer.

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In 1824 the young American Navy began to conduct professional examinations for candidates for the medical corps. A permanent board was appointed in Philadelphia, with Edward Cutbush as senior member. After 1828, assistant naval surgeons who had been commissioned and had served for five years were also given the right to apply for examination for promotion. This collection consists of some of the examination papers from both applicants for appointment and for promotion.

Abstract The origins of the Public Health Service hospital system date to the passage in 1798 of the law creating the Marine Hospital Fund to care for merchant seamen. Contained herein are materials on the history of the Public Health Service hospitals and their administration. Included are the history files for each hospital maintained by the Division of Hospital's Information Office as well as documents relating to the conversion or closure of each hospital; program files, reports, and planning...

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Collection consists of character reference letters and applications for examination to be Navy Surgeons, submitted to the Navy Medical Board in Philadelphia, Pa. The letters describe an individual's personal character, as well as their previous medical experience or training. Many are written by the commanding officers of current assistant surgeons aboard Navy ships who seek formal medical training.

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Includes correspondence related to Arthur, written by Harold Jones and others; three holograph versions of his personal memoirs; a typed biography of Arthur by Harold W. Jones; an unfinished manuscript in Arthur's possession at the time of his death"The hospital ship Missouri;" and a set of hand-drawn cartoon caricatures titled "Reminiscences of the Mess Muss."

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Daybooks, correspondence, ledgers and journals pertaining to medical practice, as well as memorandum books kept on board a privateer during the American Revolution.