The house surgeon and physician : designed to assist heads of families, travellers, and sea-faring people, in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with concise directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies : together with many of the most approved, from the shop of the apothecary : all in plain English / by Wm. M. Hand.

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The house surgeon and physician : designed to assist heads of families, travellers, and sea-faring people, in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with concise directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies : together with many of the most approved, from the shop of the apothecary : all in plain English / by Wm. M. Hand. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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New-Haven : Printed by S. Converse, for Silas Andrus, Hartford, 1820.

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xii, 288 pages ; 19 cm

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Second edition, revised and enlarged.

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First published anonymously in Hartford in 1818
"Recommendations": p. [iv]
"Marasmus" (p. 128-138) is taken from James Hamilton's Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines
"American remedies": p. [177]-252
"Appendix. Of water. Taken from Thompson's London dispensatory": p. [281]-288
Includes index
Film 633 reel 48 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 48, no. 874).
NLM Copy 2, "American remedies" (p. [177]-252) only, bound fourth in pamphlet volume W6 P3 v.539.

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Shoemaker 1501

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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