A Dictionary of Practical Medicine; Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, &c. - Vol. VIII

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1856 Book. Good. Hardcover. Vol. VIII of this work, whose title continues ". . .and the disorders especially incidental to climates, to the sex, and to the different epochs of life; with numerous prescriptions for the medicine recommended, a classification of diseases according to pathological principles, a copious bibliography, with references; and an appendix of approved formulae: the whole forming a library of pathology and practical medicine, and a digest of medical literature." Vol. VIII contains dictionary entries on skin, sleep and sleeplessness, smallpox, spasm, spinal column, spleen, stammering, sterility, stomach, stomatitis, stomatorrhagia, succussion, suppuration, sycosis, sympathetic associations of disorders, symptomatology, syncope, syphilis, tabes, tetanus and trismus, therapeutics, diseases of the throat, thrust, tinea, the tongue, tremor, and tubercular consumption. Light foxing and edgewear, with more moderate wear on the spine edges..