A treatise containing a plan for the internal organization and government of marine hospitals, in the United States : together with observations on military and flying hospitals, and a scheme for amending and systematizing the medical department of the Navy. / By William P.C. Barton, M.D. surgeon in the Navy of the United States, stationed at the Navy-Yard, Philadelphia, and formerly physician to the Army in the 4th military district; president of the Philadelphia Linnean Society, and professor of botany in the University of Pennsylvania.
| Author/creator | Barton, William P. C. |
| Other author | Parker, Daniel, 1782-1846, dedicatee. |
| Other author | Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856, illustrator. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The second edition, with emendations and additions. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed for the author, and sold only by him, 1817. |
| Description | viii, 2 unnumbered pages, 240 pages, 1 unnumbered page, xx-xxv, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 23 cm500 |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 40142. ^A575643 |
| General note | Diagram of a "chimney-place-stove," signed: W.P.C.B. del. et fecit acid. |
| General note | Copyright Jan. 27, 1817 by William P.C. Barton. |
| General note | Dedicated to Daniel Parker, Esq. adjutant and inspector-general of the Army of the United States. |
| General note | A reissue of the sheets of the 1814 edition (Shaw & Shoemaker 30809). "Certain preliminary matter, the 'Conclusion' and the appendix of the earlier edition are omitted. The dedication is changed and a new preface added. Part of the material on the Pennsylvania Hospital is replaced by the new section (p. 130-133) on 'military and flying hospitals.' The introduction (p. [135]-144) to the 2d part ... is reprinted with alterations. Slip cancels and an excision take care of the changes in the table of contents. ..."--Austin. |
| General note | "Errata."--p. [xxvi]. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 40142 |
| References | Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 148 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 40142). |
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