Quincy's Lexicon-medicum : a new medical dictionary, containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, practice of physic, materia medica, chymistry, pharmacy, surgery, midwifery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine / selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
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Quincy's Lexicon-medicum : a new medical dictionary, containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, practice of physic, materia medica, chymistry, pharmacy, surgery, midwifery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine / selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors by Robert Hooper. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Published by Benjamin Warner, M. Carey & Son, and Edward Parker, 1817 ([Philadelphia] : Griggs & Co., printers)

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8 unnumbered pages, 870 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

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In his preface the author states that this is an almost completely new work, and not merely a revision of John Quincy's Lexicon medicum, which was first published in 1717
First published in London ca. 1805
Printed in two columns
On t.p., the words "anatomy ... materia medica" and "chymistry ... midwifery" are printed in two columns separated by a vertical double rule
Last leaf blank
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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 943
Shaw & Shoemaker 41081

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