The ladies medical companion : containing, in a series of letters, an account of the latest improvements and most successful means of preserving their beauty and health ; of relieving the diseases peculiar to the sex, and an explanation of the offices they should perform to each other at births ; with engraved figures explanatory ; also, the best means of nursing, preventing and curing the diseases of children / by Thomas Ewell.

  • Ewell, Thomas, 1785-1826.
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The ladies medical companion : containing, in a series of letters, an account of the latest improvements and most successful means of preserving their beauty and health ; of relieving the diseases peculiar to the sex, and an explanation of the offices they should perform to each other at births ; with engraved figures explanatory ; also, the best means of nursing, preventing and curing the diseases of children / by Thomas Ewell. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Printed by William Brown, 1818.

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2 unnumbered pages, 308 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates (folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 22 cm

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A reissue of the author's Letters to ladies (published by the same press in 1817) with a new title page and a new "Note" by the author on the 2nd prelim. leaf
NLM copy, plate imperfect: figures 3-9 wanting.
Film 633 reel 42 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 42, no. 744).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 744
Shaw & Shoemaker 43981

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1956. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. duplicate negative made from deteriorating acetate camera master

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