A discourse on self-limited diseases : Delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, ... May 27, 1835 / by Jacob Bigelow.

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Boston : Nathan Hale, 1835.

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48 pages ; 8o

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Refr: Eimas 1446; Osler 2034; G&M 2212 Note: Visiting physician to Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of materia medica at Harvard, Jacob Bigelow has been described as "one of the greatest American botanists". According to Oliver Wendell Holmes the above discourse did more than any work in the English language to rescue the practice of medicine from "the slavery of the drugging system"

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