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The American vegetable practice : or, A new and improved guide to health, designed for the use of families in six parts. Vol. I / by Morris Mattson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mattson, M. (Morris), 1809?-1885, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human anatomy.
- Materia medica.
- Medicine, Botanic.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xii, 686 pages)) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Daniel L. Hale, 1841.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 74748.O
- In addition to wood-gravings illustrating the parts on anatomy and midwifery, the text is accompanied by twenty-six plates - twenty-four of which are chromolithographs designed by Caroline Neagus, of Boston. Morris Mattson is listed as a physician in the Boston city directories from 1842 through 1862.
- Mattson worked with Thomson for two years on the revision of The New Guide to Health, then broke away with his own much more expensively illustrated guide.
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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