Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1332

JAMES JACKSON (1777-1867) Another letter to a young physician: to which are appended some other medical papers. Ticknor and Fields 1861 xii, 179 pp. 18.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1331

Another letter calls into question "whether there is any good to be derived from the practice of medicine" and cautions against the overuse of medicine in the alleviation of pain and disease. Among the appended papers is a fascinating "Memoir on the last sickness of General Washington and its treatment by the attendant physicians."

Cited references: Cushing J5; Osler 3063

Copy 2: Gift of William B. Bean, M.D