The medical companion, or, Family physician : treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure, and means of prevention : common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. : the management and diseases of women and children, a dispensatory, for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms : to which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body, shewing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of disease : an essay on hygieine [sic], or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine : an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plats ; also, the nurse's guide / by James Ewell.

  • Ewell, James, 1773-1832.
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Family physician

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Baltimore : Printed for the proprietors, by B. Edes, 1822.

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792 pages ; 23 cm

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6th ed., rev., enl., and very considerably improved.

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Originally published under title: The planter's and mariner's medical companion. 1807
Includes index

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