Cox's companion to the sea medicine chest, and compendium of domestic medicine : particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists, with plain rules for taking the medicines ; to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of asiatic or spasmodic cholera / revised and considerably enlarged by R. Davis.

  • Cox, Edward
Date:
1851
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Credit: Cox's companion to the sea medicine chest, and compendium of domestic medicine : particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists, with plain rules for taking the medicines ; to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of asiatic or spasmodic cholera / revised and considerably enlarged by R. Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. The circumstance of this little work having passed through thirty-two editions is a sufficient guarantee, if any were wanting, of its value, and of the estimation in which it has been held by the public for so many years. In presenting the present, the thirty-third edition, to their notice, the Editor begs to state, that by the directions of the Proprietor, and assisted by some of the most able practitioners in medicine and surgery, he has corrected, improved, and considerably enlarged the dimensions of the original work, and has made such other addi- tions as he trusts will prove highly serviceable in pointing out to men of common sense, although not possessing a medical education, the means of rendering themselves useful to their fellow-creatures, by making them familiar with the symptoms and treatment of medical and surgical cases. The book, as it now stands, is divided into three departments or divisions:—First, a Pharmaceutical or Drug Department, in which is contained a full account of all the principal medicines in use, their properties, qualities, and doses, as administered in the cure of disease. Secondly, a Surgical Department, in which is given a concise description of all the more common dislocations and fractures incidental to persons employed in laborious occupations, together with their symptoms and treatment.
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