A discourse on self-limited diseases
Subtitle: Delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, ... May 27, 1835
By: by Jacob Bigelow
Contributors: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Publisher: Nathan Hale
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Medicine
Notes: Refr: Eimas 1446; Osler 2034; G&M 2212 Note: Visiting physician to Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of materia medica at Harvard, Jacob Bigelow has been described as "one of the greatest American botanists". According to Oliver Wendell Holmes the above discourse did more than any work in the English language to rescue the practice of medicine from "the slavery of the drugging system"

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