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3. The home book of health and medicine: being a popular treatise on the means of avoiding and curing diseases, and of preserving the health and vigour of the body to the latest period : including also an account of the nature and properties of remedies : the treatment of the diseases of women and children, and the management of pregnancy and parturition

5. Shelton's American medicine: or improvement in uniting his new steam system, and the old practice of medicine : in which doctors' terms are explained, and the complaints of men, women and children, are treated of in a satisfactory manner ; and remedies suited to all climates, constitutions and circumstances of the American people ; the valuable practice and preparations of Dr. Isaac Wright, of Tennessee, are fully developed in this work ; it also contains a plain description of the whole human frame : with general rules for preserving health without the use of medicines ; and a choice collection of roots and plants, not explained in any other book ; and the practice is made perfectly safe, simple and convenient to alll capacities, with but little expense

6. A domestic guide to medicine: by which individuals, both male and female, are enabled to treat their own complaints with perfect safety : to this is prefixed a familiar treatise on the genuine Hygeian vegetable pills, or universal remedy of Dr. Ralph, showing its agreement with the prevailing doctrines of the Brit. College of Physicians and Surgeons, London and pointing out the principle on which this remedy is applicable, in one degree or other, to every disease, without exception, to which the human family is subject

8. Gunn's Domestic medicine, or Poor man's friend: in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness ; this book points out, in plain language, free from doctor's terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure and is expressly written for the use of families in the western and southern states ; it also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the western and southern country, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases : arranged on a new and simple plan, by which the practice of medicine is reduced to principles of common sense