Manual for the Medical Practitioner; Including Medical and Pharmaceutical Instructions, and 541 Prescriptions.

xii, 215, [9] pp. 8vo. Gerard Arink was an immigrant from Holland who treated the German population of Rochester, New York. Arink has included treatments for yellow fever, consumption (tuberculosis), dysentery, cholera, and other common ailments of the period, as well as bronchitis, sciatica, heartburn, and other complaints more common to modern medicine. This work was printed by Erastus Darrow, the oldest bookseller in Rochester. Not in Hoolihan or Garrison-Morton, only 4 in OCLC. Includes: Examples for Reading and Writing Prescriptions; Alphabetical Order of Simplicia; Therapeutics: Acute Fevers; Chronic Fevers, Intermittent Fevers, Ague; Inflammations and Congestions of Blood; Rheumatic Diseases; Gastric Diseases, Impurities in the Stomach and Bowels; Nervous Diseases; Loss of Flesh, Consumption; Dropsy and Air Collections; Unnatural Discharges; Suppressions; Diseases of the Skin; Diseased State of the Fluids; Disorganizations, False Organizations, Parasites; Female Diseases; Diseases of Infants.