Buy this book on-line AVERY**, RN,(Retd.), Lieut.Commander K. R: : A DOSE OF SALTS. **UK,BRAUNTON,DEVON.MERLIN BOOKS LTD.,1988. ISBN 0863033806.
UK,small 8vo wraps,p/back 1st edn. NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy navy blue background with Navy's Medical Branch uniform's badge illustration and white lettering to front card cover,white lettering to navy blue spine/ backstrip which has no reading creases,rear cover with author's thumbnail b/w portrait photograph and black lettered potted biography of author to a white background.Negligible shelf-wear,if any,no bumping,no creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present either.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread other than my own collation.UK,small 8vo wraps,p/back 1st edn,v-xiiipp+17-270pp includes a Foreword by Surgeon Vice-Admiral G.J. Milton-Thompson,QHP,FRCP,Medical Director General (Naval),unpaginated contents list/table,an an Appreciation by Surgeon Rear-Admiral J. Cox,OBE, MB,BS,FFARCS (CA),an illustrations list/table, acknowledgements,author's Introduction,Pts 1-4 comprising 5,6,7 and 1 chapters respectively, profuse b/w contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and individual Pts separator pages.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s age and its nature, i.e. an ephemeral p/back book.It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
The medical side of the Royal Navy at its grass roots has never been recorded.Here is a narrative which covers this aspect and is informative and of historical value.It gives a good picture of a rating's life on foreign stations prior to WW2,it tells of conditions prevailing in Plymouth during the Blitz and describes operations in the Mediterranean in which HMS Stalker took part in 1942/43.
The books title alludes to the dispensation of Epsom and other Salts in Medicine,the salty seas,and Old Salts - the sailors.
A copy of the manuscript is now preserved at the Imperial War Museum which sets great store on its value.
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