The Mariner's Medical Guide, 1884

designed for

Ships, Families, and Plantations

Eight Edition, Revised

Boston: Published by James Folsom & Co.

A list of medicines, (materia medica)  their uses, and the mode of administering, when a physician cannot be procured.  189 pages.  Measuring: 7 x 5 x 1/2 inches.  Folsom ads are included in the front and back covers.

 

 

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Ads from inside of front and back  boards

 

Introduction

 

Contents of the medical chest 

 

 

Sailors applying a tourniquet