The medical pocket-book
Dublin Core
Title
The medical pocket-book
Subject
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Excerpts
Medicine
Interleaves
Description
This encyclopedia of popular medical practice lists common diseases and treatments. The pages are interleaved with manuscript notes by an unnamed reader who contrasts John Elliot’s recommendations with information culled from an English translation of John Brown’s Elementa medicinae—probably the edition printed in London in 1795.
Abstract
Excerpt from John Elliot's 1784 The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body.... showing the interleaved manuscript pages
Creator
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Publisher
printed for J. Johnson
Date Created
1784
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Kennedy Library of English Medical Books, in the Boston Medical Library (1.Mk.107)
Format
text
Extent
excerpt (2 pages)
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
DigID0002842
Provenance
Gift of Harris Kennedy, M.D., to the Boston Medical Library, 1921
Files
Citation
Elliot, John, 1747-1787, “The medical pocket-book,” OnView, accessed April 19, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/13068.