Examination questions from the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1/001-01

Scope and Contents

Examination questions and responses to Naval Medical Board at U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, from D. Warren Brickell, 1847, and H. Lawrence Sheldon, 1856. Brickell gives description of iritis and its treatment. Sheldon responds to twelve questions and describes fistula lacrymalis; scarlatina; delivery by the feet; composition of light; definition of dew point; nux vomica; branches of intestinal iliac; lacrimal apparatus; structure and function of liver; morbid changes in blood; rheumatism; and symptoms and treatment of strychnine poisoning.

Dates

1847, 1856

Creator

United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

According to the "Instructions for Medical Officers of the U.S. Navy" (1873), "A board of naval surgeons will be assembled annually, at such place as may be indicated by the [Medical] Department, usually about the close of the lecture season of the colleges, for the examination and selection of candidates for admission into the Medical Corps of the Navy as well as for the examination of Assistant Surgeons who may be candidates for promotion .... The board reports the relative merit of the candidates as shown by examination."

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

Small collections

Subjects

Related Names

Creator

United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) (Organization)

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Examination questions from the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin