| Description Of Item | Clipped book review from the British Medical Journal in a scrapbook from the collection of John Ritchie relating to Dr Philip Gosse’s book Pirates’ Who’s Who: Giving particulars of the lives and deaths of the pirates and buccaneers. The article discusses the overlap in pirates and medical professionals, citing Gosse’s account of Thomas Dover, George Wilson, Peter Scudamore, Lionel Wafer, and William Taylor, all of whom were pirates and were either medical professionals or of medical interest. |