Domestic medicine, or, Medical vade mecum : a safe companion and guide for families, planters, commanders of ships or steamers, or any one who may require a true friend in time of need ... alphabetically arranged ... / by Edward Jenner Coxe ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coxe, Edward Jenner, 1801-1882.

Contributor:

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medicine.

Genre:

Embossed bindings (Binding)

Physical Description:

300 p. ; 19 cm.

Edition:

[4th ed.]

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia?] : printed for the author, c1854 (Philadelphia : G.T. Stockdale)

Contents:

Dedication. Preface. List of medicines and their preparations most generally used, alphabetically arranged. Part I. An alphabetical classification of medicines and articles of diet or drink most generally used

Part II. Maxims relating to the formation of a sound constitution and the preservation of health, with miscellaneous observations tending to the public good, derived from various sources, acknowledged authorities in medicine, and collateral sciences

Part III. The practice of medicine, the arrangement of diseases being alphabetical

Part IV. Surgery.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in dark brown cloth with ornamental border embossed on front and back covers.

OCLC:

11373519