The medical assistant, or, Jamaica practice of physic. : designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].

Kingston, Jamaica : Alexander Aikman, 1801.

4 unnumbered pages, vi, 2 unnumbered pages, 384 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves ; (4to)

"Appendix [p. [323]-374] containing 1. A collection of forms or receipts for making-up the medicines recommended in the work. 2. A catalogue of such medicines ... as are more especially necessary to be kept in families, and on plantations. 3. A table of the weights, measures, doses of medicine, &c. 4. An account of all the simples of the country, whose virtues and uses are known, with the manner of exhibiting them, their doses, &c. 5. Index of diseases, with simples suited thereto. 6. An alphabetical index of the simples of which an account is given"

"Addenda to yellow fever": p. [381]-384

Copy 1 Note: The last 5 leaves, containing Corrections and additions to the medical assistant, &c., were possibly separately published.

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