Fire Engines with Water Hoses and the Method of Fighting Fires Now Used in Amsterdam History of Medicine his genealogy

his genealogy

Thackrah followed his patients into factories to trace the causes of disease

Mathias Schleiden

and toured lighthouses

medical biography

Fire Engines with Water Hoses and the Method of Fighting Fires Now Used in Amsterdam History of Medicine his genealogyvan der Heyden, Jan, 1996, xxi + 102pp, Illus. The list of sources for the history of fire fighting in the seventeenth century is frustratingly short. What information there is largely comes from doleful accounts of the conflagrations of the day. Their authors pay only fleeting attention to the tactics, organizations, or types of fire equipment used, concentrating instead on the number of buildings burned and lives lost. There are few broadsides and