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Materia Medica

 Subject

Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

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Robert Pryor Richardson notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey

 Item
Identifier: 10a 198
Scope and Contents

One volume ([64] p.) of an incomplete set of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey. Lectures are numbered 2-8; lecture 2 is dated 17 Nov. 1817. Topics covered include animal life, sympathy, nutrients, vegetable food (grains, roots, fruits), animal food (mutton, wild game, poultry, eggs, fish, shellfish, snake, turtle, milk, dairy products), cooking (pickling, soups, roasting, broiling, frying, stewing), and drinks.

Dates: 1817