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4. Gunn's new family physician, or, Home book of health: forming a complete household guide, giving many valuable suggestions for avoiding disease and prolonging life, with plain directions in case of energency, and pointing out in familiar language the causes, symptoms, treatment and cure of diseases incident to men, women, and children with the simplest and best remedies : presenting a manual for nursing the sick, and describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants : with supplementary treatises on anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, on domestic and sanitary economy, and on physical culture and development

Author(s):
Gunn, John C.
Publication:
Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1867
Subject(s):
Medicine

5. Offene Volks-Sprache über das Menschensystem: die Gewohnheiten der Männer und Frauen, die Ursachen und Verhütung der Krankheiten, unsere geschlechtlichen Beziehungen und sociales Leben : und gesunder Menschen-Verstand, erläuternd Ursachen, Verhütung und Heilung chronischer Krankheiten, die natürlichen gegenseitigen Beziehungen der Männer und Frauen-Gesellschaft, Liebe, Ehe, Elternstand, u.s.w, u.s.w

Author(s):
Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bliss), 1829-1906
Publication:
New York : Murray Hill Verlags-Handlung, 1882
Subject(s):
Medicine
Complementary Therapies
Interpersonal Relations
Sexual Behavior

9. The medical companion, or family physician: treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, cause, cure, and means of prevention, common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c., the management and diseases of women and children : a dispensatory for preparing family medicines, and a glossary explaining technical terms, to which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body, showing, on rational principles, the cause and cure of diseases : an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine, also the nurse's guide

Author(s):
Ewell, James, 1773-1832
Publication:
Philadelphia : C. Desilver, 1867
Subject(s):
Medicine

11. Old Doctor Carlin's recipes: being a complete collection of recipes on every known subject, as selected from the mss. of old Doctor William Carlin of Bedford, England : together with additions by the American editor on various subjects, embracing also a department for the household of most thoroughly tried recipes, a treatise on bees, a treatise on poultry, etc. : being the latest and most reliable collection of recipes for the farm, the household, the sick room, the kitchen

Author(s):
Carlin, William, 1780-1870
Publication:
Toledo, O. : Locke, 1881
Subject(s):
Medicine
Cooking
Animal Husbandry

13. The compendium of health: pertaining to the physical life of man and the animals which serve him, including the horse, ox, sheep, hog, dog, cat, poultry, and birds : embracing anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, the cure and prevention of disease, the peculiar functions and disorders of the maid, wife, mother, and babe, the nursing of children and the sick, medicinal recipes, accidents, injuries, and poisons, the care and improvement of the domestic animals, etc., etc

Author(s):
Hale, Edwin M. (Edwin Moses), 1829-1899
Publication:
Chicago : Hill, Huling, 1884
Subject(s):
Medicine
Veterinary Medicine

17. The family doctor

Author(s):
Hamlin, B.
Publication:
[California : Lemoore Tulare Co., 1880]
Subject(s):
Medicine

19. Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners ; to which are added, observations on diet ; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present : also, Advice to mothers, on the subject of their own health ; and of the means of promoting the health, strength, and beauty of their offspring

Author(s):
Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Publication:
Boston : Printed for Joseph Bumstead, (printer and bookseller.) ; for sale at his bookstore no. 77, State-Street, and by booksellers in various parts of the United States, 1813
Subject(s):
Medicine

20. Family physician: designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs

Author(s):
Frisbee, John.
Publication:
Boston : J. Frisbee, 1847
Subject(s):
Medicine
Phytotherapy

27. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V]

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

28. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

29. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

30. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 2)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

31. The domestic encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a concise view of the latest discoveries, inventions, and improvements ; chiefly applicable to rural and domestic economy ; together with descriptions of the most interesting objects of nature and art ; the history of men and animals, in a state of health or disease ; and practical hints respecting the arts and manufactures, both familiar and commercial ; illustrated with numerous engravings and cuts ; in five volumes ; volume I[-V (Volume 3)

Author(s):
Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street : and T. & J. Swords, New-York ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803[-1804]
Subject(s):
Technology
Housekeeping
Medicine

32. Plain home talk about the human system: the habits of men and women, the causes and prevention of disease, our sexual relations and social natures : embracing medical common sense applied to causes, prevention, and cure of chronic diseases, the natural relations of men and women to each other, society, love, marriage, parentage, etc., etc

Author(s):
Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bliss), 1829-1906
Publication:
New York : Wells & Coffin, 1870
Subject(s):
Medicine
Complementary Therapies
Interpersonal Relations
Sexual Behavior

34. The helping hand: containing a great number of valuable receipts on medical, agricultural, culinary, and miscellaneous subjects : and for cooking well at a trifling cost, making hair restoratives, toilet soaps, dyes, all kinds of cements, hair dyes, domestic wines, coloring, scouring clothes, and hundreds of other receipts for use in every position of life

Author(s):
Somerset, Phil.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Barclay & Co., [c1872]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Cooking
Housekeeping

43. The American cyclopaedia of domestic medicine and household surgery: a reliable guide for every family, containing, in the plainest language, full descriptions of the various parts of the human body, accounts of the numerous diseases to which man is subject, their causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention, with plain directions how to act in case of accidents and emergencies of every kind : also, full descriptions of the different articles used in medicine and explanations of medical and scientific terms

Author(s):
Ford, Samuel Payne, 1840-
Publication:
Chicago : Kingsley, 1879
Subject(s):
Medicine

44. Health at home, or, Hall's family doctor: showing how to invigorate and preserve health, prolong life, cure diseases, understand the physical conditions of maternity and the proper management of infants, and discussing the entire physical well-being of man, with a very large collection of the latest and most valuable medical prescriptions

Author(s):
Hall, W. W. (William Whitty), 1810-1876
Publication:
Hartford, Conn. : Betts, 1874
Subject(s):
Medicine

47. The practical household physician: a cyclopedia of family medicine, surgery, nursing and hygiene, for daily use in the preservation of health and care of the sick and injured : containing a plain description of the parts of the human body and their uses, chapters on "our homes", climate, food, and drink, use of intoxicants and narcotics : special chapters giving important information for every woman, with clear and full information for assisting the skillful efforts of the doctor, and for the treatment of accidents and diseases : arranged for ready reference to enable one to do instantly what can and ought to be done in emergencies to relieve suffering or save life

Author(s):
Hartshorne, Henry, 1823-1897
Publication:
Philadelphia, Pa. : J.C. Winston & Co., 1891
Subject(s):
Medicine

48. Family physician

Author(s):
Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Publication:
New York : S.S. Fitch, 1868
Subject(s):
Medicine

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