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 hygeine [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 wich sprung from that most deplorable disaster
By: [James Ewell]
Edition: 3rd edition - greatly improved / by James Ewell.
Publisher: Printed for the author, by Anderson & Meehan
Published: 1816
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 698
Subjects: Medicine; Medicinal Plants
Notes: Several errors in paging.

First edition published 1807 under title: The planters and mariner's medical companion.

Shaw & Shoemaker #37544.

Bound in brown leather; stamped in gold; red leather label on spine, stamped in gold.

Austin 739.