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First Fleet Surgeon
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Author : David Hill
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Release Date : 2015-05-01
First Fleet Surgeon written by David Hill and has been published by National Library of Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with History categories.
In a single leather-bound volume of 238 unlined pages of parchment, Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth describes his two-and-a-half year journey with the First Fleet from Portsmouth in England to the new colony in Australia and back. He is a frank, articulate and observant writer, and his diary, a treasure of the National Library of Australia, covers life at sea, stopovers in the slave port of Rio de Janeiro and the tropical paradise of Tahiti, and three months of early settlement in Australia. As surgeon to more than 100 convict women on the Lady Penrhyn, Bowes Smyth gives an insight into the plight of these women, sentenced to transportation, and their children. Their voyage was marked by seasickness, miscarriage, infant deaths, a diet of salted meat and dry hardtack biscuits, and cruel punishment from thumb screws to gagging and flogging with a cat-o’-nine-tails. When they finally set foot on Australian soil, their travails did not end, being set upon by drunken sailors and crew in a ‘scene of debauchery and riot’. Bowes Smyth also describes medical incidents that would make a modern reader squirm, from extracting a ‘jigger worm’ from his own foot to a scurvy outbreak which resulted in bleeding noses, contracted muscles, emaciated bodies and swollen, blackening limbs. There are moments of high drama when mountainous seas threaten to overturn the ship or when passengers fall overboard, as well as calm days at sea spotting porpoises, whales, seals and all manner of sea birds. Upon finally reaching Botany Bay, Bowes Smyth describes ‘the joy which possessed every breast upon so long wished for an event’. He details early encounters with Aboriginal people and the struggles in setting up the new colony, which was plagued from the outset by food shortages, outbreaks of disease and crop failures. He also describes the promiscuity and lax morals of the convicts with typical flair, declaring their audacity ‘not to be equalled amongst a set of villains in any other part of the globe’. In First Fleet Surgeon, author David Hill brings to life the voyage of the Lady Penrhyn and the early months of settlement at Port Jackson (modern-day Sydney) through Bowes Smyth’s colourful language and frank anecdotes. Each chapter includes a page of Bowes Smyth’s handwritten diary entries accompanied by a full transcript, and is richly illustrated with paintings, lithographs and maps from the National Library of Australia’s collection. Information boxes on subjects such as eighteenth-century medical knowledge, brewing beer on board, and a surgeon’s typical day provide context to Bowes Smyth’s story.
Journal Of A First Fleet Surgeon
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Author : George Bouchier Worgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Journal Of A First Fleet Surgeon written by George Bouchier Worgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Australia categories.
Journal Of A First Fleet Surgeon
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Author : George B. Worgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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George Worgan was a surgeon on the 'Sirius'.
Journal Of A First Fleet Surgeon 1788
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Author : George B. Worgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Journal Of A First Fleet Surgeon 1788 written by George B. Worgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Journal Of A First Fleet Surgeon Esprios Classics
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Author : George B Worgan
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2021-02-22
Journal Of A First Fleet Surgeon Esprios Classics written by George B Worgan and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-22 with categories.
George Bouchier Worgan (May 1757 - 4 March 1838) was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made several expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after the Sirius was wrecked there. There is no evidence that George Worgan was on board the Sirius when it was wrecked off Norfolk Island on 19 March 1790. This is confirmed below where it states " but was not on board when it was wrecked in March 1790". Worgan recorded many of the events of the first year of the colony of New South Wales. Unlike his contemporary Watkin Tench, he did not publish his account.
Journal Of A Voyage To New South Wales
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Author : John White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1790
Journal Of A Voyage To New South Wales written by John White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1790 with Australia categories.
Health Medicine And The Sea
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Author : Katherine Foxhall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Health Medicine And The Sea written by Katherine Foxhall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with categories.
Nelson S Surgeon
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Author : Laurence Brockliss
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-10-06
Nelson S Surgeon written by Laurence Brockliss and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-06 with History categories.
Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in Nelson's defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, he became Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war. The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he was a prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of the nineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson , he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.
The First Fleet
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Author : Alan Frost
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2012-12-12
The First Fleet written by Alan Frost and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-12 with History categories.
“Alan Frost is the myth-buster of Australian history...His work should be studied not only by students but anyone interested in the birth of a nation.” — the Age In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conventional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Robert Hughes condemned the organisers’ “muddle and lack of foresight”, while Manning Clark described scenes of “indescribable misery and confusion”. In The First Fleet: The Real Story, Alan Frost draws on previously forgotten records to debunk these persistent myths. He shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to the British government’s secret ambitions for imperial expansion. He examines the ships and supplies, passengers and behind-the-scenes discussions. In the process, he reveals the hopes and schemes of those who planned the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it. ‘It is almost certain that Frost knows more than anybody else about the early maritime history of this land ... This book will surely alter the way Sydney sees its history.’ — Geoffrey Blainey, The Weekend Australian
Surgeons Of The Fleet
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Author : David McLean
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2010-07-30
Surgeons Of The Fleet written by David McLean and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-30 with History categories.
During her imperial heyday, Britain's greatest fighting force - the Royal Navy - was only ever as good as its surgeons. "Surgeons of the Fleet" explores the dramatic story of medical practice on the high seas, offering the first full portrait of the men who dedicated their lives to the Navy, and their contribution to its efficacy as a military machine. With vivid and occasionally eye-watering description, David McLean traces the development of naval medicine from the gory days of Cook and Nelson - when as many as 65 per cent of maritime casualties were due to illness - through to the outbreak of World War I, recounting the advances in surgery, diet and hygiene which allowed Britannia to rule the waves. "Surgeons of the Fleet" also offers a unique window into the development of public health programmes on land, many of which grew out of maritime initiatives. Brimming with original research and colourful storytelling, "Surgeons of the Fleet" makes an invaluable contribution to the fields of military and imperial history.