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Start Over Formats Text ✖Remove constraint Formats: Text Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Subjects Materia Medica ✖Remove constraint Subjects: Materia Medica Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works Dates by Range 1800-1849 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1800-1849

1. The American botanic medical family instructor: founded upon the theory and practice of vegetable medicines, with remarks on the different practices of medicine, and natural laws : anatomy and physiology, and the preservation of health, a description of medical plants, and the art of compounding medicines, and a general treatment of diseases, compiled from various sources, particularly designed for family use

Author(s):
Taylor, Jeremy.
Publication:
New London : Taylor & Miller, 1843
Subject(s):
Materia Medica
Phytotherapy
Hygiene

2. The American herbal, or materia medica: wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities

Author(s):
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Publication:
Walpole [N.H.] Printed by David Carlisle, for Thomas & Thomas, and the author, 1801
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Medicine, Traditional
Materia Medica
North America
South America

3. The American medical guide for the use of families: in two parts : part 1st ; a materia medica ; being a treaties [i.e., treatise] on all the most useful articles used as medicine, including those which are the produce of our own country : part 2d therapeutics, or, the art of curing the various diseases of the human body : to which is added a short description of the constituent parts of the human body

Author(s):
Ruble, Thomas W. (Thomas White), 1765-
Publication:
Richmond, (Ky.) : Printed by E. Harris, for the author, 1810
Subject(s):
Therapeutics
Materia Medica

4. The botanic physician, or, Family medical adviser: being an improved system, found on correct physiological principles : comprising a brief view of anatomy, physiology, pathology, hygieine [sic], or art of preserving health : a materia medica, exclusively botanical, containing a description of more than two hundred and thiry of the most valuable vegetable remedies : to which is added a dispensatory, embracing more than two hundred recipes for preparing and administering medicine : the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cures, and means of prevention : likewise, a treatise on the diseases peculiar to women and children

Author(s):
Carter, J. E., active 1837
Publication:
Madisonville, Ten. : Published by B. Parker & Co., 1837
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Materia Medica

5. Domestic medicine: a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : with directions for the management of common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations and wounds : the treatment peculiar to the diseases of women and children : with observations on the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine : and a treatise on animal, vegetable, mineral and aerial poisons, pointing out the symptoms, antidotes and means of cure, in cases of poisoning ; to which is annexed, a dispensatory, for the use of private practitioners, and a glossary, explaining technical terms

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Cincinnati : U.P. James, 1838
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Disease

10. The family physician, or Poor man's friend, and married lady's companion: containing a great variety of valuable medical recipes, designed to assist heads of families, travellers and sea-faring people, in curing diseases ; with concise directions for the preparation, and use of a numerous collection of vegetables made use of ; and directions for preparing and administering them to cure diseases ; together with many of the most approved from the shop of the apothecary ; all in plain English

Author(s):
Weyer, A. (Anthony), 1784-1845
Publication:
St. Clairsville, O. : Published by the author ; Horton J. Howard printer, 1831
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal
Materia Medica
Pharmaceutical Preparations

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