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Excerpt from Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest, and Compendium of Domestic Medicine: Particularly Adapted for Captains of Merchant Vessels, Missionaries, and Colonists, With Plain Rules for Taking the Medicines The circumstance of this little work having passed through thirty-two editions is a sufficient guarantee, if any were wanting, of its value, and of the estimation in which it has been held by the public for so many years. In presenting the present, the thirty-third edition, to their notice, the Editor begs to state, that by the directions of the Proprietor, and assisted by some of the most able practitioners in medicine and surgery, he has corrected, improved, and considerably enlarged the dimensions of the original work, and has made such other addi tions as he trusts will prove highly serviceable in Wag out -to men of commonsense, although not possessing a medical education, the means of rendering themselves useful to their fellow-creatures, by making them familiar with the symptoms and treatment of medical and surgical cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.