A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Seventh Edition. Leather_bound. Fair. The seventh edition, revised and enlarged. Covers are considerably edgeworn, front cover barely hanging on, four inches of nibbling to the rear edge, area of loss at the bottom of spine, leather label chipped, worn, recipe on the front endpaper, previous owner's stamp to second blank page, else clean and unmarked. A respectable binding copy. Previous owner was an 1892 graduate of the Albany Medical College. Recipe on the front endpaper is "To make old horses young or to put life into them." Materia medica is a Latin term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing. Today this is called pharmacology. Bartholow produced this work while a professor of Materia Medica at the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati. In 1879 following publication of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Bartholow accepted a professorship at the prestigious Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!