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<dl><dd>"These are all embodied herein with careful emendations just made, giving modern processes, pointing out the latest approved methods for treating the diseases of men, women, and children, with simple and effective remedies taken largely from the vegetable materia medica; in a separate grouping, the latter describes the forms, properties, and uses of nearly three hundred medicinal plants, and has elsewhere concise directions for the emergencies in cases of drowning, poisoning, burning, wounding, etc., and also directions for nursing the sick and the management of the sick room; likewise separate treatises on anatomy, physiology, and the laws of health arranged methodically by Charles Alfred Rodin; in the department of sanitary economy are the best modes for securing for dwellings and premises, pure air, pure water, and proper drainage, with positive sanitary instructions for the disinfection of towns, home surroundings, etc. to avoid epidemics; scientific sources furnish illustrated lessons for physical recreation and exercise, and an appendix contains some 400 tested practical recipes and remedies for diseases of domestic animals."</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed</dd>
<dd>digitized</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Medicine; Hygiene</div>
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<dl><dd>Gunn, John C</dd>
<dd>Jordan, Johnson H</dd>
<dd>Rodin, Charles Alfred</dd></dl></div>
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