Formula of prescriptions, and various instructions : for the service and guidance of those who have applied, are applying, or shall apply, to the enemy to human diseases : to which is prefixed, a vindication, concerning the dietical abstinence, detecting the dangerous tendency of several articles forbidden as pernicious to the human body -- in which are included tobacco, salt and salted food, spirituous liquors, all sorts of spices, and coffee / by Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

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Formula of prescriptions, and various instructions : for the service and guidance of those who have applied, are applying, or shall apply, to the enemy to human diseases : to which is prefixed, a vindication, concerning the dietical abstinence, detecting the dangerous tendency of several articles forbidden as pernicious to the human body -- in which are included tobacco, salt and salted food, spirituous liquors, all sorts of spices, and coffee / by Sylvan, enemy to human diseases. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Providence : Printed for the author, 1812.

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139 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

References note

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1850
Shaw & Shoemaker 26840

Notes

An otherwise blank leaf (p. [29-30]) bears a "rose-colored stamp" with legend: Enemy to human diseases. According to a title-page note, copies lacking this stamp are unauthorized
Sabin (63422) wrongly attributes to Octavius Plinth. The author is distinguished from Plinth in H. R. Stiles' A hist. of the city of Brooklyn, v. l, 1867, p. 393, n. 3
Film 633 reel 91 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 91, no. 1850, 1852).
NLM copy, bound with: Various instructions, and additional prescriptions for the service and guidance of those who make their application to the charitable distribution. [Providence: s.n., 1813?].

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1960. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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