The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic : designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / by Thomas Dancer, M.D.

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St. Jago de la Vega [Jamaica] : Printed by John Lunan, printer to the Honourable Council, 1809.

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9 unnumbered pages, viii-xii, 4 unnumbered pages, 434 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plate : portrait ; 25 cm (4to)

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The second edition.

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NYAM. Author cat. of the library, v. 10, p. 236

Notes

First published in Kingston in 1801
Prelims. include advertisement leaf (p. [2]) and errata (p. [5])
"Account given of the first edition of The medical assistant ... in the several English and American reviews": [1] p. preceding title page
Frontis. port. of author signed Scriven sc
"Appendix" (p. [335]-403) has the same contents as that of the first edition, Kingston, 1801, with a few changes and corrections, and the addition of "Mineral waters of Jamaica" (p. 399-400)
"Additamenta": p. [404]-407
"Quackery exposed, in a set of extracts from the Medical observer, 1808": p. [417]-434
"On the poison of fish": p. [435]
Includes index

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

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