The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.

  • Elliot, John, 1747-1787.
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The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

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viii, 1 unnumbered page, 10-74 pages, 14 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

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Half-title: The medical pocket-book; for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians. Price one dollar
Dedicated to Sir John Pringle, Bart
Bookseller's catalogue: final [14] pages (i.e. sigs K2-4 and L⁴); according to a printed explanatory note, the final gathering, sig.L, was printed later than the rest of the book, thus accounting for the uncorrected gap in the numbering of the catalogue entries between the foot of K4v and the head of L1r. Cf. the foot of K4v: "A continuation of this catalogue will be published on Monday next"
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-L⁴
NLM Copy 1: imperfect: lacking sig.L.
Film 633 reel 41 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 41, no. 719).

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Evans 18456
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4472
Winans, R.B. Book cats., 101
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 719
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 134
ESTC (RLIN) W26101

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1953. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. duplicate negative made from deteriorating acetate camera master

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