The practical home physician and encyclopedia of medicine : a guide for the household management of disease ; giving the history, cause, means of prevention, and symptoms of all diseases of men, women and children; and most approved methods of treatment, with plain instructions, for the care of the sick. Full and accurate directions for treating wounds, injuries, poisons, &c. Free from technical terms and phrases, and written in plain English, by men who have had great experience, and are acknowledged authorities in their various departments. Also a concise account of the structure and functions of the human body, hygiene and rules of health / written by Henry M. Lyman, Christian Fenger, H. Webster Jones, W.T. Belfield.