The medical companion, or, Family physician : treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure, and means of prevention : common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. : the management and diseases of women and children : a dispensatory, for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms : to which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body showing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of diseases : an essay on hygieine [sic], or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine : an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants : also, the nurse's guide / by James Ewell.

James Ewell

Date:: 1847

Credit: The medical companion, or, Family physician : treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure, and means of prevention : common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. : the management and diseases of women and children : a dispensatory, for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms : to which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body showing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of diseases : an essay on hygieine [sic], or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine : an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants : also, the nurse's guide / by James Ewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Dear Sir, We have perused your Medical Companion with much satisfaction, and strongly recommend it to the attention of those fami- lies who cannot with convenience procure medical aid. We think it the best publication we have ever read on the domestic treatment of diseases, more especially as it regards those of our climate. We are, very respectfully, sir, Your most obedient servants, BROWN & MACKENZIE. Baltimore, March 4, 1808. Dr. James Ewell. Sir, I have read your book on Domestic Medicine with pleasure. The practice recommended in it is judicious, and, being from the pen of a native physician, has great advantage over the publications of Euro- pean authors. JOHN SHAW, M.D. Professor of Chemistry in the College of Medicine in Maryland. Dr. James Ewell. Charleston, May 7, 1808. Dear Sir, Your Medical Companion, contains much useful know- ledge in a small compass, and is particularly adapted to these States. Families remote from medical aid, will find their account in possessing a book which describes diseases so plainly, and prescribes for them so judiciously, as bid fair to save valuable lives, which otherwise might be lost. Your most obedient servant, * DAVID RAMSAY, M.D.

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