Friendly cautions to the heads of families and others, very necessary to be observed in order to preserve health and long life : with ample directions to nurses who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. : third edition with additions / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, Robert Wallace, 1719 or 1720-
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Friendly cautions to the heads of families and others, very necessary to be observed in order to preserve health and long life : with ample directions to nurses who attend the sick, women in child-bed, &c. : third edition with additions / by Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Nurse's guide, or companion for a sick chamber

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Philadelphia : Printed and sold by James Humphreys, 1804.

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2 unnumbered pages, xii, 155, that is, 163 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

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The first American edition, with notes and additions.

Notes

Half title: The nurse's guide; or, Companion for a sick chamber
Errata slip tipped to front end paper
First published anonymously in London in 1767 under title: Some friendly cautions to the heads of families. Published in Philadelphia in 1819 under title: The nurse's guide, and family assistant
Pages 166 and 167 misnumbered as 148 and 155
With five final pages of advertisements
Film 633 reel 57 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 57, no. 1073).
NLM copy has bound in front single sheet: Harvard University, Library of the Mass. Medical College, Rules and regulations.

References note

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1073
Shaw & Shoemaker 6561

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1960. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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