The soldier's medical friend
Subtitle: a gift to the surgeons in the service of the United States government and their allies
By: by M.O. Terry
Publisher: Plimpton press
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Norwood, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Military Medicine; Popular Medicine; History
Notes: Several of the articles are reprinted from various medical journals and others are papers read at meetings.

One copy presented and signed by the author (Nov. 19, 1917).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The philosophy of oil treatment for appendicitis, with maxims for ready reference; title: The prevention of degenerative changes in living tissues; title: How to forestall old age; arteriosclerosis with its incidental complications; title: How to look young and feel young; title: Diphtheria successfully treated without antitoxin; title: Nature and uses of bromine in medicine and surgery, especially in septic conditions; title: Food value of fruit, its antiseptic bearing on health and a regulator of physiological functions; title: Practical observations on treatment of pneumonia and pleurisy; title: Cancer; title: Conservative methods with special references to medicated galvanic current in treatment of tubercular glands, goiter and uterine fibroids, with suggestions for treatment of prostatic hypertrophy; title: Observations on care of children; title: Treatment of typhoid fever; title: The specific action of drugs and not "similia similibus curantur" not symptomatology, the science basis of law of homeopathic therapeutics; title: What is the matter with doctors and surgeons?; title: Some common sense suggestions; title: Preventive features of difficulties merging into surgical necessity; title: Invaluable prescriptions and measures for various difficulties; title: Invaluable prescriptions and measurements for various ailments; title: Index.