The medical companion, or family physician : treating of the diseases of the United states, with their symptoms, causes, cure, and means of prevention : common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. : the management and diseases of women and children : a dispensatory, for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms : to which are added, a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body, shewing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of diseases : an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine : and an American materia medica, pointing out the virtures and doses of our medicinal plants : also, the nurse's guide / by James Ewell.

James Ewell

Date:: 1827

Credit: The medical companion, or family physician : treating of the diseases of the United states, with their symptoms, causes, cure, and means of prevention : common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. : the management and diseases of women and children : a dispensatory, for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms : to which are added, a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body, shewing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of diseases : an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine : and an American materia medica, pointing out the virtures and doses of our medicinal plants : also, the nurse's guide / by James Ewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Baltimore, Nov. I8th 18 DEAR SIR, When the Medical Companion was first published, I considered it greatly superior to every work of that character I had read. I have now read the Sixth Edition, and am much gratified in hav- ing it in my power to say, that in this Edition you have so enhanc- ed the value of the work, as to claim my unqualified approbation. Doctor Rush, during my residence in his house, often spoke of his intention to publish a medical work for the use of families, adapt- ed to the climate of the United States. As he reserved it for the last act of his labours, for the benefit of mankind, unhappily he did not live to accomplish his design. In the work now presented to the public, you have fulfilled the patriotic intentions of the great and good Rush, to the utmost ex- tent, and I sincerely hope your reward may be as it deserves, ample. I am, dear sir, very truly, yours, ASHTON ALEXANDER, M. D Dr. James Eiodl. Philadelphia, August 13, 1816. DEAR SIR, I have looked over, with some care, the copy of the Third Edi- tion of the '■Medical Companion, wbich you did me the favour to. present to me. By the additions and revisions given to this new impression of the work, it is not only enlarged,but exceedingly improved. After stating so much, I need hardly repeat an opinion, which I publicly expressed on a former occasion, that I consider it, as indis- putable. the most useful popular treatise on medicine with which 1 am acquainted. Compared with the European Books of the same nature, it has, ^specially in relation to the treatment of the diseases of oui own country, a very decided superiority. I trust that the success of this literary enterprize maybe equal to your very generous and benevolent disposition. With great respect, I am, dear sir, your«, Stc. N. CHAPMAN, M. I) Professor of the hist'lutes and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Practice, in the University of Pennsylvania

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