Medical Repository, Comprehending Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Medicine, Chemistry, Natural History, Agriculture, Geography, and the Arts, Volume 6
Medical Repository, Comprehending Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Medicine, Chemistry, Natural History, Agriculture, Geography, and the Arts, Volume 6
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Fair. Sixth volume of the second hexade, twelfth overall, of the journal founded in 1797. ix, 414 pp. Contemporary plain boards, backed in later paper tape, untrimmed. Title leaf detached. Dampstains at the edges of outer leaves, affecting some text, foxing throughout. Fair to good. A compendium of essays and reports chiefly by or translated by American doctors, on topics ranging from successful treatment of rabies with mercury to 'manners of the Indians living high up the Missouri. ' John Archer, M.D., of Maryland submits a report on a strange living worm and apparent teratoma in the form of a tooth extracted from a woman who had recently given birth. He encloses the tooth in his letter to the editors.
