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Wythes, Joseph H : The Physician's Dose and Symptom Book Containing the Doses and Uses of All the Principal Articles of the Materia Medica and Chief Officinal Preparations; Also, Tables of Weights and Measures, Rules to Proportion the Doses of Medicine, Common Abbreviations used in Writing Prescriptions, Table of Poisons and Antidotes, Dietetic Preparations, Table of Symptomatology, Outlines of General Pathology and Therapeutics

Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia, PA, 1857

Second Edition. Brown full leather binding with gilt lettering on front. Binding is in the form of wrappers with a front flap that can be folded into a tab on front. 3 1/2" x 5." 230 pages, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall but have slight age toning and some faint dampstaining throughout. Text is still very readable. Covers are clean and intact overall but have moderate rubbing. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. A pocketbook-sized compendium of pharmacological information intended for nineteenth-century physicians. Includes descriptions of medicinal compounds, dosage amounts, instructions for administering different medicines, corresponding poisons and antidotes, and the like. Index in back.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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