Description
Title: The New England Botanic Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume I
Author: M.D. Calvin Newton
Publisher: Calvin Newton, M.D., Worcester Massachusetts
Published: 1847
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 384
Catalogs: Medicine, Health Sciences, History of Medicine
: Original blind-embossed brown cloth binding, with gilt lettering on spine. Pest damage to front board, and suspected water damage to back board, resulting in wrinkling and warping. Corners rubbed and boards slightly exposed, shelf wear to spine edges. Binding and stitching is firm. Substantial foxing and browning to pastedowns and pages. Interior contents are otherwise clean. These are the collected contents of a journal published by Calvin Newton, M.D., as a semi-monthly publication for the New England Botanico-Medical College in Worcester MA. Contains an index that precedes the collected contents of the journal. The emphasis of the articles and letters is on botanical medicine and treatments, with most issues featuring a particular plant and its value medicinally. Topics of discussion in the articles include American Indian medicine and applications, homeopathy, allopathy, and Thomsoniam medicine. Ailments discussed in the journal’s articles include typhus, rheumatism, delerium tremens, rickets, gangrene, skin ailments, incontinence, dropsy, osteosarcoma, pleurisy, spinal diseases, toothache, sciatica, and more. Hardcover. Conditon: fair. 384 pages, octavo.
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