British naval surgeon's journal describing prisoners from ship of American Captain John Paul Jones

British naval surgeon's journal describing prisoners from ship of American Captain John Paul Jones

Cowpox--Inoculation
Fever--Sailors
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792
Medicine, Naval--Eighteenth century

A notebook kept by the unamed surgeon of the British naval vessel “George & Jean”. It is divided into several sections by subject. The first section, written in 1780, describes the surgeon’s ship taking on board ill prisoners from the ship of American Naval Captain John Paul Jones – considered the Father of the United States Navy - while near Texel Island, off the coast of Holland.

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1780

English

Diaries

naval_diary

1 volume

Bonhams Auctions, London

Eighteenth century

Netherlands
North Sea

Anonymous. Name available upon request.