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    The new good samaritan, Or, Domestic practical physician; extracted chiefly from the medical essays of the learned academies in Europe. To which is prefixed a physiological account of pulses. Of the properties and virtues of milk, as an animal fluid, as food, and as a medicine. Of the recovery of persons supposed to be drowned. Likewise, for the use of married ladies is added the practical midwife, by question and answer. With an elegant engraving of the different positions of the infant in the womb. The whole made familiar to every capacity / by S. Freeman.

    Freeman, Stephen, M.D. | Date: 1780
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    A dictionary of domestic medicine and household surgery / by Spencer Thomas.

    | Date: 1883
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    Modern domestic medicine : a popular treatise, describing the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame, embracing the modern improvements in medicine, to which are added, a domestic materia medica, a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c, The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen, heads of families, emigrants etc. / by Thomas J. Graham.

    Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876. | Date: 1872

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