Diary of a Physician in California
Diary of a Physician in California

Author: James Lawrence Tyson

Publisher:

Published: 1850

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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Dr. James L. Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. Diary of a physician in California (1850) recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical practice and his hospital at Cold Spring, where his patients included a number of Oregonians. Tyson closes his hospital at the end of the summer, sailing from San Francisco as a ship's physician, crossing the Isthmus and landing in the United States in December 1849. His diary pays special attention to miners' health and working conditions.

Diary of a Physician in California
Diary of a Physician in California

Author: James L. Tyson

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781332120529

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Excerpt from Diary of a Physician in California: Being the Results of Actual Experience, Including Notes of the Journey by Land and Water, and Observations on the Climate, Soil, Resources of the Country, Etc Tranquil Sea. - Fiery Sun and Cloudless Skies. - A Sailing-vessel not adapted to the Pacific. - Change our Course. Myriads of Water-Fowls and Fishes. - The Porpoise, Grampus, Dolphin, and Devil-Fish. - Coast of Costa Rica. - Milder Atmosphere. - Delightful Breezes. - Amusing Incidents. - Off Realejio. - Fourth of March. - Shark Supper. - Increasing Heat. - Brilliant Nights. - A Death. -Remarkable Coincidences. - Coast of Guatemala. - Repose on the Pacific. - Gulf of Tehuantepec. - Coast of Oaxaca. - A Volcano. - Harbor, City, and Inhabitants of Acapulco. - Attempt to Sleep Ashore. - A Mexican Salute. - Sumptuous Repast. - Almost a Battle; Weigh Anchor. - An Omen. - Death of "the Old Man." - Calms and Head-Winds. - Views of the Coast. - Volcano of Colima. - Cape Corrientes. -Magnificent Sunset. - "Bout Ship." - Gulf of California. - Chilling Atmosphere. - Its Effects. - First View of Lower California. - Cape Palmas. - Beautiful Scene. - Cape St. Lucas. - Halo of Glory. - A Steamer. - Head-Winds and Currents. - Cape Falso. - Rugged Coast. - Disagreeable Weather. - Discomforts on Board. - Short of Provisions. - Incompetency of the Captain; Our Sensations on a First View of Alta California. - Dismal Appearance of the Coast. - Fogs. - An Incident and a Luxury. - Coast between Saint Louia Obispo and San Miguel. - Proposition for an Enterprise. - High Sea. - A Beautiful Sight. - A Gale. - Liquid Fire. - Ocean in Flames. - Amusing Occurrences. - Point Pinos. - Pleasant Weather. - Terrific Hail Storm. - A Paradise. - Off the Bay of San Francisco. - The Chrysopyle. - Magnificent Scene. - Bird Island. - Anchor in the Bay of San Francisco; A Town of Wood and Muslin. - Deserted Ships. - California Prices. - A Scuffle to get on Shore. - Famished Voyagers. - High-Pressure System. - Blasphemy, Gold, and Gambling. - Camp on Shore. - Desertion of Crew. - Death of Captain. - Climate of San Francisco contrasted with Benicia and Sancolito; Start for the Sacramento. - Packing in a Launch. - Eating Ones' Self. - Golden Rock. - Adventures in Pursuit of Eggs. - Dangerous Situation. - Brothers and Sisters. - Straits of Pablo. - Bay of Sonoma. - Straits of Karquines. - Sleeping on Board. - Breakfast on Shore. - Reminiscences of Schooner Sovereign. - A Pleasant Walk. Benicia. - A Naval Station. - Suisan Bay. - A Famous City. - Its Advantages to Miners. - Enter the Sacramento. - Appearance of the Shores. - Sloughs. - Thule Marshes. - Nurseries for Disease. - Mosquitoes. - Tramp through a California Ticket. - Barber's Ranch. - A Philosopher. - Indian Rancheria. - Wild Geese and Ducks. - Sierra Nevada. - Suttersville. - Embareadero About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Diary of a Med Student
Diary of a Med Student

Author: Daniel B Azzam

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781087906973

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From the earliest stages of our medical training, we experience unforgettable moments with our patients - inspiring, traumatic, joyful, and sometimes even humorous events. Too often, as doctors-in-training we talk about the suffering or recovery of our patients, ignoring our own emotions after these events, letting them passively shape us until we dig ourselves into an abyss of burn out and resentment. Diary of a Med Student is a book created by medical students, for medical students, doctors, pre-med students, and their loved ones to look backward, forward, and laterally on the wonderful world of medical school. This book offers a space to reflect on our emotions, process their meaning, and share them as tales of sorrow, humor, joy, or inspiration, told from the perspective of medical students writing in a diary. While the act of sharing emotion is itself therapeutic, reading these emotional challenges that we can all relate to is unifying and comforting, providing us with insight through the lessons conveyed in the light of a variety of feelings. Let this book spark a powerful domino effect of change in medical education: in the way we teach physicians to create a safe space for inner reflection and expression of emotion to ultimately enhance physician wellness.

Hiroshima Diary
Hiroshima Diary

Author: Michihiko Hachiya, M.D.

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0807873551

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The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. His compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and who became a friend of Dr. Hachiya. In a new foreword, John Dower reflects on the enduring importance of the diary fifty years after the bombing.

American Alchemy
American Alchemy

Author: Brian Roberts

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003-06-19

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 080786093X

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California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption. Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in fact middle-class in origin, status, and values. Tracing the experiences and adventures both of these men and of the "unseen" forty-niners--women who stayed back East while their husbands went out West--he shows that, whatever else the gold seekers abandoned on the road to California, they did not simply turn their backs on middle-class culture. Ultimately, Roberts argues, the story told here reveals an overlooked chapter in the history of the formation of the middle class. While the acquisition of respectability reflects one stage in this history, he says, the gold rush constitutes a second stage--a rebellion against standards of respectability.

The Diary of a Forty-niner
The Diary of a Forty-niner

Author: Chauncey L. Canfield

Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13:

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Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers first-hand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.

Seeds of Hope
Seeds of Hope

Author: Kristiana Gregory

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781515323228

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A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, "Seeds of Hope" shares characters from "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847."