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Darrera modificació: 2021-05-05
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Duffin, Christopher J., "John Woodall (1570-1643) of the East India Company", Topics in the History of Medicine, 1 (2021), 6-24.
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- Following apprenticeship to a barber-surgeon and service on the continent, John Woodall (1570-1643) joined the East India Company as its first Surgeon-General. He carried out his responsibilities to shipyard employees at Deptford and Blackwall both conscientiously and with considerable empathy. Woodall's The Surgion's Mate,first published in 1617 was, in addition to being a shipboard resource for surgeons and theirmates, a very early corporate training manual which, viewed retrospectively, provides unique insights into maritime medicine at the time of the Tudor/Stuart transition. He was responsible for the provision and fitting out of sea-going surgeon's chests, and included several instruments of his own devising, including a cylindrical crown blade trephine and a spatula for removing compacted faeces from the colon, in their inventories. In addition to his medical work, Woodall was a gifted linguist and willingto pursue litigation when he thought it necessary.
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Història de la medicina
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- https://www.academia.edu/47783949/John_Woodall_1570 ...
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