The physicians ́ vade mecum; being a compendium of nosology and therapeutics, for the use of students
By: by the Rev. Joseph Townsend, Rector of Pewsey, Wilts
Contributors: Royal College of Physicians of London
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: printed by C. Whittingham, for H. D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row; and sold by J. Johnson, St. Paul ́s Church Yard
Published: 1799
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Clinical Medicine; Pathology; Therapeutics; Hygiene; Handbooks
Notes: With final advertisement leaf.

Half-title missing.

Surrogates: Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Reference: ESTC N12309.

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Royal College of Physicians, London.

MS. note on fly-leaf recto: How transient are all the pleasures  of this life, when contrasted with more which Christ offers to simple souls who wish [?].

Provenance: Loose ms letter of offer inserted: Dear Dr. Chaplin ... yours Th. H. Nicholson [Thomas H. Nicholson]

Provenance: Two water color paintings (p. 76 and 142) of landscape with architectural detail. P. 76 is signed: James William Penryn. A gift.

Binding: 19th c. [?]  Brown calf with patterned rolled in gold fillet. Lower cover with flapp projecting over fore-edge.