The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1816-05-15
PROPOSALS..
BY JAMES EWELL,
For Printisg the Third and Greatly Improved Edi.
ion OF HIS
FAMILY PHYSICIAN,
EETfTLeD THE
MEDICAL COMPANION .


MEDICAL COMPANION.
Treating in the mosf clear and concise manner
almost euery disease 80 which he human
body 10 subject, with their names, synh-
tome, eaases, cure, regimen, and mesns
@hrevenion--A Dishensas0ry for
hrefaring family medicines, and a
Giossary for explaining teehni-
cal terms. !.
IN this, though unfinished state, it was honored
9th the plaudts of Professors Mitchell, shippen,
Barton, Chspioan, Woodhouse, Davdge, shaw, and
many other physicians of the first reputation in the
United States. from New-York to Charleston as
also by sales Of two large editions, with rapidly
increasing demand for u third.
Animated by such extraordinary success Of the
MEDICAL CON PANION' the author
h:: greatly improved i. BY adding to the third
edition.
A brief anatomy and physiology of the human
body, which by displaying its mechanism and laws.
will clearly point out, rational principles, the
cause and cure of diseases.
H. An essay on the SIX NON NArURALs, or
grand constituents Of health AIR. room, EXERCISE,
sLEIY, EvAcuAI IONS, and MISUNDERSTANDING that
by proper attention to these, the most feeble
frames, without the aid of medicine, may attain both
plesssi able life and great aye while, by the neg
lect Of these, men Of the strongest constitutions,
nil NOT Hre out haJ their days
ILL., An american ylfatera yNsdiea, pointing out
those precious smpIes, wherewith Con has gra-
ciously stored our meadows, fields, and woods, for
the healing of our diseases, and rendering us hap
PLY independent on foreign medicines, which, though
sometimes hard to be obtained, frequently adul-
terated, and always costly.
w. Having been himself melancholy spectator
ofthe capture Of the CITY OF WASHINGTON by
the British, he has annexed honest history Of that
awful tragedy with sundry important hints, relative
to- those BILIOUS and CAMP vgvERs, and DysEs-
TERIEs, which followed ,bst great national calamity.
Tho whole forming COMPLETE osIpE TO
HEALrH, both of MIND and popy.
CONDITIONS.
The price Of the first and second editions, though
little exceeding three hundred pages, and compare.
lively sterile, was three dollars and fifty cents per
copy. This edition, greatly improved and Augmen-
ted, to upwards of $50 pages, neatly bound aud let
tered, will be but five dollars
- This third edition Of tho MEDICAL Con-.
YANIoN," has received the patronage of several Of
the heads Of government, the principal members of
both houses Of congress, and almost every respect
able citizen Of Washington, most Of whom paid in
advance.
It is likewise patronixed by the professors, and
other distinguished characters in Philadelphia,
where the work is at press Upwards of Eve hun
dred and Fifty pages already in print, and IL is
correctly ascertained. that several hundred cop
les will be ready for delivery. the 6rst week in usxt
month. tt A.
Booksellers will be allowed a reasonable discount.
| Those gentlemen who Indicated so much zeal in
patro9iIng the work, soon the prospectus was
presented to the public, will unquestionsbly be first
supplied with copies. @
Huntington Cify, .4prii IL. (m8l aw.