RT Journal
T1 ANnual report of the supervising surgeon-general of the marine-hospital service of the united states for the fiscal year 1888
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD October 12
VO XIII
IS 15
SP 541
OP 541
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02401110035014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401110035014
AB A great deal of interest to the medical reader will be found in this report, which includes, among other matters, a description of the outbreak and management of the recent epidemic of yellow fever in Florida; observations on the natural history of epidemics of yellow fever by Passed Assistant Surgeon John Guitéras, M. H. S.; a report on the food of seamen coming into the port of Philadelphia, by Surgeon P. H. Bailhache, M. H. S.; a report relative to food issued to seamen on merchant vessels arriving at San Francisco, together with a report of scurvy treated during the seventeen years ending June, 1888, by Surgeon H. W. Sawtelle, M. H. S.; selected reports of special operations by various surgeons of the service; reports of a large number of fatal cases, with necropsies. Much credit is due the Surgeon-General, Dr. J. B. Hamilton, for the excellent manner in which