The medical companion
Subtitle: treating, according to the most successful practice: I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children : with a dispensatory and glossary : to which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body, an essay on hygieine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life, an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington, and the diseases which sprung from that ... disaster
Contributors: History of Medicine Collections (Duke University)
Edition: 3rd ed., greatly improved.
Publisher: Printed for the author [by Anderson & Meehan?]
Published: 1817
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 718
Subjects: Medicine; Popular Works
Notes: First ed. published 1807 under title: The planters and mariner's medical companion.

Apparently a reprint of the 3rd ed., Philadelphia, 1816.

Austin 740