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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The family physician or domestic medical friend |
| Reference | 71370.O |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1802 |
| Author | Thomson, Alexander |
| Place of Creation | New York |
| Description | Thomson's Family Physician was first published in London in 1801; a second London edition appeared in 1807. This 1802 New York edition was the book's only North American publication. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Health and Hygiene; Children's Health; Women's Health; Surgery and General Practice; Physiology; Sexual Health |
| Keywords | anatomy, medicine, air, exercise, diet, sleep, cleansing, hygiene, children, disease, fever, inflammation, sore throat, catarrh, cold, cough, pleuritis, blood, tuberculosis, pain, headache, toothache, indigestion, poison, venereal disease, cancer, epilepsy, hysteria, colic, asthma, jaundice, edema, gout, rheumatism, cholera, dysentery, piles, diabetes, menstruation, dislocation, burns, bruise, faintness, bloodletting, water, baths |
| Parts of the Body | head, eyes, ear, throat, digestive organs, liver, kidneys, teeth, reproductive organs, nervous system, respiratory system, bones |
| Additional Information | In an arrangement common to domestic medical texts of the late 18th- and early 19th centuries, Thomson devotes his first book to hygiene, he second to diseases and management of children, the third to febrile disease, the fourth to inflammations and the last to domestic surgery (e.g. bloodletting, the treatment of burns, dislocations etc). The appendix contains "an alphabetical account of the substances most commonly employed in medicine, with the virtues and uses of each". |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |