The family and ship medicine chest companion: being a compendium of domestic medicine, surgery, and materia medica : with directions for the diet and management of the sick-room : particularly adapted for heads of families, captains of ships, travellers, and overseers of plantations : comprising plain rules for the administration of medicines, with their properties and doses : also general rules on bathing, a plain description of the treatment of fractures, and dislocations, etc., etc., and a concise account of the asiatic and spasmodic cholera, with the remedies to be used in the absence of professional assistance : to which is added receipts of general utility for family purposes : selected from standard works

Collection:: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Publication:: Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston, 1851
Language(s):: English
Format:: Text
Subject(s):: Medicine
Genre(s):: Popular Works
Copyright:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain (More information)
Extent:: 416 p.
Illustrations:: Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:: 63570350R (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/63570350R

$The family and ship medicine chest companion: being a compendium of domestic medicine, surgery, and materia medica : with directions for the diet and management of the sick-room : particularly adapted for heads of families, captains of ships, travellers, and overseers of plantations : comprising plain rules for the administration of medicines, with their properties and doses : also general rules on bathing, a plain description of the treatment of fractures, and dislocations, etc., etc., and a concise account of the asiatic and spasmodic cholera, with the remedies to be used in the absence of professional assistance : to which is added receipts of general utility for family purposes : selected from standard works$ View Book