American family physician : detailing important means of preserving health, from infancy to old age, the offices women should perform to each other at births, and the diseases peculiar to the sex, with those of children and of adults With an Appendix, Containing Hints Respecting the Treatment of Domestic Animals and the Best Means of Preserving Fish and Meat.

Thomas Ewell

James Thomas, 1824

[Early American Medicine]  Bound in full leather. Hinges weakened. Octavo. xix, 480 pages.  Book plate of the Library of Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.  Early signature of William L. McCormick, 1827. A scarce volume, only one auction recorded. 

"Much of this work by physician Thomas Ewell (1785 - 1826) was published in his earlier book Letters to Ladies Concerning Themselves and Children and his 1806 discourse on Chemistry. He also took much inspiration and information from the highly technical work of Dr. Robert Thomas, Practice of Physic. Ewell received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1805, and was a naval surgeon until 1813. He is known for his simplified works on medicine and chemistry targeted towards a general public market." - Heritage Auctions.