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SMITH, W.H.
Smith's Family Physician: Comprising the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Diseases; with Instructions for Nursing the Sick; List of Poisons: Animal Vegetable and Mineral; With Symptoms of Poisoning, and the Best Remedies and Treatment...
Montreal John Lovell for the Author 1873, 528 p. 23 cm. 1st ed. Ft. hinge cracked, scribbles insideft. endpaper, stain to bottom fore-edge, corners worn, back cover stained, rebacked. Smith was the author of "Canada: Past, Present & Future", and late surgeon to the emigrant ship "Amazon". The Macmillan Dic't of Cdn Bio. says Smith "appears to have been an English ship's surgeon who came to Canada, and became a travelling surgeon-dentist; and he apparently collected the info. embodied in his books while making his professional journeys. He was evidently a man of excellent education; but his identity has remained, in spite of exhaustive research, a mystery."
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