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Clark, John Yardley

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John Yardley Clark notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey

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Identifier: 10a 306
Scope and Contents One volume (131, 250, 11 leaves) of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey at the University of Pennsylvania. The first section is a general lecture on therapeutics, which includes subsection “the modus operandi of medicines”. The second section covers bloodletting and the following materia medica: emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialagogues, emenagogues, anthelmintics, stimulants, narcotics, antispasmodics, tonics, and epispastics. The last...
Dates: 1816 - 1817