Download or read book British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830 written by Geoffrey L. Hudson and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Military and Naval Medicine challenges the notion that military medicine was, in all respects, 'a good thing'. The so-called monopoly of military medicine and the authoritarian structures within the military were complex and, at times, successfully contested.