Homoeopathic domestic physician : containing the treatment of diseases; popular explanations of anatomy, physiology, hygiene and hydropathy, a treatise on domestic surgery, and an abridged materia medica / by J. H. Pulte. With important additions, especially in surgery, and the diseases of women and children. Forty-fourth thousand.

  • Pulte, J. H. (Joseph Hippolyt), 1811-1884.
Date:
1871 [©1857]
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Credit: Homoeopathic domestic physician : containing the treatment of diseases; popular explanations of anatomy, physiology, hygiene and hydropathy, a treatise on domestic surgery, and an abridged materia medica / by J. H. Pulte. With important additions, especially in surgery, and the diseases of women and children. Forty-fourth thousand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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