Bryan, James, M. D. A Short History of Medicine, from the Earliest Periods, up to the Revival of Literature; An Introductory Lecture, Delivered March 28th, 1850, in the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Philadelphia: Published by the Class, 1850. 1st . [348]
Removed, stitched into a new acid-free wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 29 pp., good condition. Ink name stamp of an historical society on the first page of text. Good. Pamphlet.
"As medicine may with great propriety be denominated a system of both empirical and philosophical doctrines, its history must be necessarily valuable to the enquiring student." The author treats with the primeval, ancient, medieval, and "new" periods of the practice of medicine.