1. Family medical adviser: giving such information on the practice of physic and the diseases of women and children as may prove useful in families when regular physicians cannot readily be procured : selected, arranged, and compiled from the best medical authors, together with his own observations in the treatment of diseases, generally : to which is annexed anatomy, surgery, materia medica, and many valuable prescriptions, being a useful guide for intelligent heads of families, overseers of plantations and manufactories, masters of vessels, and travelers Author(s): Boyd, J. Publication: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1845 Subject(s): Medicine