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<dl><dd>Half-title: The nurses guide, and family assistant; or Companion for a sick chamber</dd>
<dd>The first American edition was published in Philadelphia in 1804 under title: Friendly cautions to the heads of families</dd>
<dd>"Appendix. Additional instructions for the nurses of a fever hospital. ... from a medical report ... by J. Cheyne ... published in the first volume of the 'Dublin Hospital reports.'"--P. 169-180</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-P⁶</dd>
<dd>Film 633 reel 57 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 57, no. 1075)</dd>
<dd>Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints</dd>
<dd>Shaw &amp; Shoemaker</dd>
<dd>Microfilm</dd>
<dd>NLM copy provenance: inscribed on front paste-down: "D. Gilbert"</dd>
<dd>NLM copy bound in contemporary calfskin; re-backed in goatskin</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed</dd>
<dd>digitized</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Home Nursing; Medicine, Traditional</div>
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<dl><dd>Johnson, Robert Wallace, b. 1719 or 20</dd>
<dd>Johnson, Robert Wallace, b. 1719 or 20. Friendly cautions to the heads of families</dd>
<dd>Finley, A. (Anthony), publisher</dd>
<dd>Small, Abraham, 1764?-1829, printer</dd></dl></div>
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