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5. The family instructor, or Guide to health: containing the names and description of the most useful herbs and plants that are now in use, with their medicinal qualities annexed : also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, with new and plain directions respecting the management of the same : with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions, and from those who were cured by the same after every other remedy had failed

22. 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

23. 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

44. First lines of the practice of physic

45. 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]

46. Medical inquiries and observations

47. Medical inquiries and observations

50. 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)

51. 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)

52. 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)

56. A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new ; to which is prefixed an introduction to his New guide to health, or Botanic family physician ; containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison, ect. [sic]

57. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 1-2)

58. American modern practice: or, a simple method of prevention and cure of diseases, according to the latest improvements and discoveries, comprising a practical system adapted to the use of medical practitioners of the United States ; to which is added an appendix, containing an account of many domestic remedies recently introduced into practice, and some approved formulae applicable to the diseases of our climate

61. 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 4)

62. 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 5)

63. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 1)

64. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 2)

65. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 3)

66. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 4)

67. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 1-2)

68. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 3-4)

75. The American domestick medicine, or, Medical admonisher: containing some account of anatomy, the senses, diseases, casualties ; a dispensatory, and glossary ; in which the observations, and remedies, are adapted to the diseases, &c. of the United States ; designed for the use of families

77. First lines of the practice of physic

78. Curiosities of medical experience

80. Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary: containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, physiology, practice of physic, materia medica, chemistry, pharmacy, surgery, midwifery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine : selected, arranged, and compiled, from the best authors

83. Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 3-4)

84. Medical inquiries and observations

85. The medical companion, or, Family physician: treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, 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 hygieine [sic], or the art of preserving health without the aid of medicine : an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants : also, the nurse's guide

92. 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

94. Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases: founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions : with an appendix, containing observations on bathing, cleanliness, ventilation, and medical electricity : and on the abuse of medicine ... : designed not merely for physicians, but for the information of others : to which is annexed, a glossary of the technical terms contained in the work

95. Elementos de medicina

98. Domestic medicine: or, A valuable treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a new dispensatory : for the use of private practitioners : to which are added, observations on the diet of the common people : recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present

99. Compendios de medicina practica