LEXICON-MEDICUM; OR MEDICAL DICTIONARY; CONTAINING AN EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS IN ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, PRACTICE OF PHYSIC, MATERIA MEDICA, CHEMISTRY, PHARMACY, SURGERY, MIDWIFERY, AND THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY CONNECTED WITH MEDICINE

New York: E. Duyckinck, Collins & Co., Collins & Hannay, and Samuel Wood & Son, 1822. viii,953pp., printed in double columns. Contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt leather label. Boards rubbed and shelfworn. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Tanned and foxed, some staining to the first dozen pages. Good only. "From the fourth London edition." Written by Robert Hooper, a physician and medical writer who taught at the Royal College of Physicians, among other schools, this is a thorough and extensive medical dictionary, "selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors." Contains descriptions of hundreds of medicines, plants, tools, and terms necessary for a physician of the period. Printed by J. & J. Harper. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 9055. CORDASCO 20-0292. (Inventory #: WRCAM55011)