| General note | "Containing Instructions on prolonging life. Rules for avoiding contagious diseases. The principles of ventilation and disinfection. The prevention of decrepitude. How to have healthy homes. How to prevent special and common diseases. How to nurse sick children. Directions for arranging a sick-room. Receipts for the sick-table. How to distinguish diseases. Useful facts in anatomy and physiology. The medicinal properties of common substances. American plants and their medical virtues. The domestic treatment of diseases. Accidents and injuries, and how to treat them. Etc. etc. etc."--T.p. |
| General note | "One of the editors of the "Half-yearly compendium of medical science;" of the "Physician's annual;" late chief of medical clinic of Jefferson Medical College; member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society; corresponding member of the Gynæcological Society of Boston; author of "Modern therapeutics;" "The physical life of woman;" "Letters from Europe," etc. etc."--T.p. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Nicholas Benson, donor |
