A trip to the East (notes abroad); or, Letters from Brazil, Arabia, Hindostan, Ceylon, Java, Siam, Cochin China, Canton, Bonin Sandwitch & Society islands, Peru, Chile and the West Indies, in the years 1835-6 & 7 ... Observations on climate & nautical hygiene and the diseases of seamen and marines .

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A trip to the East (notes abroad); or, Letters from Brazil, Arabia, Hindostan, Ceylon, Java, Siam, Cochin China, Canton, Bonin Sandwitch & Society islands, Peru, Chile and the West Indies, in the years 1835-6 & 7 ... Observations on climate & nautical hygiene and the diseases of seamen and marines ..., 1835-37.

Manuscript draft of his Voyage Around the World (1838).

1 v. (unpaged) 33 cm.

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William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1807-1895) was a physician in the U.S. Medical Corps from 1826 through the middle of the nineteenth century. He was born in Cumberland, NJ; educated in Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY; and was appointed surgeon's mate in the U.S. Navy in 1826. His first cruise was aboard the U.S. frigate BRANDYWINE (1826-1829) which made port in several cities in South America including Callao, Peru; Valparaiso, Chile; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received the degree o...