Wellcome's Excerpta Therapeutica" -- c.1907 Pocket Guide to Pharmaceuticals

  • New York: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1911
New York: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1911. Good to very good. Binding worn with some staining/discoloration. upper right corner creased/bumped. A couple leaves loosening.. U.S. edition of a pocket guide to medicine and pharmaceuticals, published by and promoting the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome & Co. of London. Organized much like an encyclopedia, the guide includes information about common home remedies including dosage, a guide to recognizing the symptoms of poisoning, and of course lengthy price lists of medical equipment and medicines sold by the company. Includes over thirty pages of color illustrations of products in the rear. Single vol. (6.5" by 3.75"), pp. 376, xxxii, illus., in original red cloth covers. Ink ownership inscription of "S. Ross Simpson" to first leaf verso. Also includes a brief pen inscription to p.[4] that reads, "Emmenagogue Methylene Blue Compound Colomel". An emmenagogue is a drug or herbal compound used to stimulate menstrual flow.

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Title

Wellcome's Excerpta Therapeutica" -- c.1907 Pocket Guide to Pharmaceuticals

Condition

Good

Publisher

Burroughs Wellcome & Co: New York

Date

1911


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