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The American vegetable practice, or, A new and improved guide to health, designed for the use of families : in six parts ... / by Morris Mattson, physician to the Reformed Boston Dispensary ... ; in two volumes.
Author
Mattson, M. (Morris), 1809?-1885
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Boston : Published by Daniel L. Hale ..., 1841.
Description
2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection
2007-1967N
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Vol. 1
Vol. 1 contains parts 1-5
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Medicine, Botanic
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Botany, Medical
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Obstetrics
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Women
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Diseases
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Notes
Contains 26 plates: 24 are chromolithographs, drawn by W. Sharp, M. Mattson, Miss C. Neagus, and Mrs. Anne Hill, and printed by Sharp, Michelin & Co. ; remaining 2 (folded) are drawn by J. Perry and engraved by J. Drayton.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references, glossaries, indexes, errata, and publisher's advertisement.
Contents
(from t. p.) Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infants. ...
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Bennett, W. Color plate books, p. 72
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New and improved guide to health, designed for the use of families
OCLC
4736589
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