THE NAVY SURGEON: Or, _A Practical System of Surgery_. Illustrated
with Observations on such remarkable Cases as have occurred to the
Author’s Practice in the _Royal Navy_. To which is added, A Treatise
on the _Venereal Disease_, the Causes, Symptoms, and Method of Cure
by _Mercury_: An Enquiry into the Origin of that Distemper; in which
the Dispute between Dr. _Dover_, and Dr. _Turner_, concerning _Crude
Mercury_, is fully consider’d; with Useful Remarks thereon. Also an
_Appendix_, containing _Physical Observations_ on the Heat, Moisture,
and Density of the Air on the Coast of _Guinea_, the Colour of the
Natives; the Sicknesses which they and the _Europeans_ trading
thither are subject to; with a Method of Cure. By JOHN ATKINS,
_Surgeon_.
Printed for WARD and CHANDLER, at the _Ship_, between the
_Temple-Gates_ in _Fleet-Street_; and Sold at their Shop in
SCARBOROUGH.
A
VOYAGE
TO
_Guinea_, _Brasil_, and the
_West-Indies_;
In His Majesty’s Ships, the SWALLOW
and WEYMOUTH.
Describing the several Islands and Settlements, _viz_—_Madeira_,
the _Canaries_, _Cape de Verd_, _Sierraleon_, _Sesthos_, _Cape
Apollonia_, _Cabo Corso_, and others on the _Guinea_ Coast;
_Barbadoes_, _Jamaica_, &c. in the _West-Indies_.
The Colour, Diet, Languages, Habits, Manners, Customs, and
Religions of the respective Natives, and Inhabitants.
With Remarks on the GOLD, IVORY, and SLAVE-TRADE; and on the Winds,
Tides and Currents of the several Coasts.
By _JOHN ATKINS_,
Surgeon in the ROYAL NAVY.
_Illi Robur & Æs triplex
Circa Pectus erat, qui fragilem truci
Commisit Pelago Ratem
Primus_——
HORAT.
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_LONDON_;
Printed for CÆSAR WARD and RICHARD CHANDLER, at the _Ship_, between
the _Temple-Gates_ in _Fleet-Street_; And Sold at their Shop in
SCARBOROUGH. M.DCC.XXXV.
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