Early American Medical Imprints. A Guide to Works printed in the US 1668-1820
by Austin, R.B
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1578981395
- ISBN 13
- 9781578981397
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About This Item
Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, 1999 reprint of 1961 first edition, . Limited edition reprint. Cloth, 8vo,. x, 240 pp. 2,106 entries. From the introduction: "In this work, medicine has been interpreted in its wider sense to include nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, child care, hygiene, first aid, education, s psychology; quackery, faith cures, and astrological medicine are also included. Some works on veterinary medicine, compilations of htdity and mortality statistics, and legislative works pertaining to medicine are included, but with no attempt in these areas to be all-inclusive. In the subjects of botany and chemistry only theses and syllabi are included... The titles listed here are books, pamphlets, theses, and broadsides; 36 periodical titles, selected from Miss Myrl Ebert s paper. The Rise and Development of the American Medical Periodical, 1797-1850 [Bulletin of tk* Medicei Library Associa-Jam '40:20-76, July 1952) have been interspersed to round out the pattern of medical pubications issued in the pre-1830 period. As New.
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- Wykeham Books
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- BIBLIO-20667
- Title
- Early American Medical Imprints. A Guide to Works printed in the US 1668-1820
- Author
- Austin, R.B
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- Limited edition reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1578981395
- ISBN 13
- 9781578981397
- Publisher
- Martino Fine Books, Mansfield Centre, 1999 reprint of 1961 first edition,
- Date Published
- Pages
- x, 240 pp
- Keywords
- 1578981395
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine (Bibliographies);
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