The Family and Ship Medicine Chest Companion: being a compendium of domestic medicine, surgery, and materia medica
Subtitle: 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
By: By a practising physician
Publisher: Lindsay and Blakison
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Popular Medicine; Medicine; Handbooks, manuals; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Hygiene