Yankee Surgeon
The Life and Times of Usher Parsons, 1788-1868
Seebert J. Goldowsky
Best known as the surgeon in Oliver Hazard Perry's squadron during
the War of 1812 and as a participant in the Battle of Lake Erie,
Parsons remained in the Navy for nearly ten years. After obtaining
a degree from the Harvard Medical School in 1818, he separated
from the service and settled in Providence, Rhode Island, where
he practiced surgery and taught anatomy at the Medical School
of Brown University until its dissolution in 1827. In 1820 he
published a manual of sea medicine entitled the "Sailor's Physician,"
which went through several editions and remained a standard work
in its field for much of the Thea century.
1988, xvi +450pp., ISBN 0-88135-088-5, $24.50
Also of interest:
J. Worth Estes
Naval Surgeon
Life and Death at Sea in the Age of Sail
1998, ISBN 0-88135-194-6, $39.95
Joseph E. Murray, M.D.
Surgery of the Soul
Reflections on a Curious Career
2004, ISBN 0-88135-256-X, $19.95
William V. McDermott,
Surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital
Its Roots in the Harvard Surgical Service at the Boston City Hospital
1995, ISBN 0-88135-173-3, $19.95
Herbert Dan Adams,
The Knife that Saves
Memoirs of a Lahey Clinic Surgeon
1991, ISBN 0-88135-072-9, $24.95
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