The Book of health
Subtitle: a compendium of domestic medicine, deduced from the experience of the most eminent modern practitioners; entirely divested of technicalities and rendered familiar to the general reader: including the mode of treatment for diseases in general; a plan for the management of infants and children; rules for the preservation of health; and for diet, exercise, air, and the preparation of food; remedies in cases of accident and suspended animation; rules for preventing contagion; a table of poisons most frequently taken, with the symptoms, and directions how to act when medical aid is not at hand. A domestic materia medica, &c. &c
Edition: First American, from the second London edition; revised and conformed to the practice of the United States, with additions by a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society ...
Publisher: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Nonprescription Drugs; Health; Hygiene; Medicine; Popular Medicine; Poisons; Patent medicines
Notes: Hoolihan, C. Atwater catalogue of American popular medicine and health reform, 2001 1: 370