The house surgeon and physician; designed to assist heads of families, travellers, and sea-faring people, in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases; with concise directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies: together with many of the most approved, from the shop of the apothecary. All in plain English ... / [William M Hand].

  • Hand, William M
Date:
1820
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Publication/Creation

New-Haven : Printed by S. Converse, for Silas Andrus, Hartford, 1820.

Physical description

xii, 288 pages ; (12mo)

Contributors

Edition

2nd. ed. /

Notes

First published anonymously in Hartford in 1818
"Recommendations" [of this book]: p. [iv]
"Marasmus" (p. 128-138) is taken from James Hamilton's Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines
"American remedies": p. [177]-252
"Appendix. Of water. Taken from Thompson's [i.e. A. T. Thomson's] London dispensatory": p. [281]-288.

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