The treasure of health, or A wonderful collection of the most valuable secrets in medicine : for the cure of all diseases, wounds, and other accidents to which the human body is subject, with the method of preparing, and instructions for using, the necessary remedies ; also, the best preservatives against the plague, pestilential fevers, small pox, and other kinds of contagious diseases ; discovered, after much research and experience, by the mos[t] skilful [sic] physicians in Europe, and employed with the greatest success, and unknown till the present time in the United States ; carefully collected by a benevolent society in Europe / faithfully translated from the French and other foreign languages, and published for the benefit of humanity, by Lewis Merlin.

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The treasure of health, or A wonderful collection of the most valuable secrets in medicine : for the cure of all diseases, wounds, and other accidents to which the human body is subject, with the method of preparing, and instructions for using, the necessary remedies ; also, the best preservatives against the plague, pestilential fevers, small pox, and other kinds of contagious diseases ; discovered, after much research and experience, by the mos[t] skilful [sic] physicians in Europe, and employed with the greatest success, and unknown till the present time in the United States ; carefully collected by a benevolent society in Europe / faithfully translated from the French and other foreign languages, and published for the benefit of humanity, by Lewis Merlin. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Wonderful collection of the most valuable secrets in medicine

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Philadelphia : Printed for the Society, 1819.

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xii, 1 unnumbered page, 14-336, 335-341 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1289
Shaw & Shoemaker 48678

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Copyright Feb. 6, 1819 by Lewis Merlin
"This valuable collection, which was for the first time printed in the Kingdom of France ... was received with so much eagerness by the public, that many editions of it have been exhausted in less than eleven months"--Preface
No French edition has been identified. Cf. Austin
Text continuous despite pagination
Final [5] p.: [1] blank, [2] errata, [3]-[5] blank
Includes index
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ A-U⁶ W⁶ X-2E⁶ (sig. 2E6 blank)
NLM copy: with early newspaper clippings (recipes and remedies) pasted on the endpapers; contemporary MS. notes and markings; on verso of title leaf, contemporary inscription: "L[s?] Merlin publisher".
Film 633 reel 65 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 65, no. 1289).

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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