MEDICINE IN COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS 1620-1820

Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980. cloth, dust jacket. Medicine. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), xxiii, 425 pages, 83 pages of illustrations. Volume 57 of the Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. It contains twelve papers delivered at the conference on colonial medicine held by the Society in Boston in 1978. Half of the papers deal with the medical practitioners and medical profession in Massachusetts and in Boston. The others discuss the actual practice of medicine in the day to day life of the colony. It contains one hundred illustrations of individuals, scenes, artifacts and instruments and other important materials. Indexed. Distributed by the University Press of Virginia. Printed by The Stinehour Press.